Show Pictures From Past Greet Englishwomen in Paris PARIS FRANCE When the Misses Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain of Oxford England visited the palace of Versailles during a trip to Paris they saw on the grounds two men wearing long tuns tunIcs tunics tun tun- ics and three-cornered three hats Passing these g guards u a r d s they came to a bridge across which a woman and a girl in antiquated peasant dress carried wooden pails Beyond a trail led the two Englishwomen Englishwomen English English- women to a cottage in front of which dozed a young man with a pockmarked pockmarked pockmarked pock pock- marked face wearing century court clothes Another man similarly similar similar- ly garbed told them to follow a path to the right Along this path they came upon a very blond young woman in an antique wide-skirted wide yellow dress and a green kerchief She was painting Beyond her was a house through whose open windows the women saw what looked like a village wedding wedding wed wed- ding feast the guests all wearing clothes that antedated the French revolution Walking farther the two Englishwomen Englishwomen Englishwomen English English- women saw people wearing modern clothing So they retraced their steps to watch more of what they thought was a pageant But they couldn't find the bridge or the house or any of the people they'd seen Shocked they took their tale to the French ministry of the fine arts under whose care Versailles palace is placed Incredulous officials oUi- oUi officials had to be urged to check back But when they did with the aid of historians and other experts they found that there had once been a abridge abridge abridge bridge where the two women said they'd seen one there had been a ahouse ahouse ahouse house there was a pock marked man the Marquis de Vaudreuil whose habit it was to take a nap at atthe atthe the queens queen's play farm farm and and court accounts of ot the period showed Marie Marie Marie Ma Ma- rie Antoinette had hOld bought a yellow dress of the type described with green kerchief A written report of the events and the historians' historians check has been deposited deposited deposited de de- de- de posited at the library at Oxford rd university and is now under understudy understudy understudy study by psychiatrists and others |