the Moberly–Jourdain incident — two professors walked into 1789 at Versailles

This one's got pedigree which is why I love it. August 1901, two respectable English academics — Charlotte Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain, heads of an Oxford women's college — are touring Versailles looking for the Petit Trianon. They get lost in the gardens and both report this heavy, oppressive, 'un……