Château d'Argeville

Château d'Argeville

The Château d'Argeville is a château in the commune of Vernou-la-Celle-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne, France. Some elements of the château date from the 17th century, and those and parts of its grounds are listed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture. The château itself, being partially destroyed, is not protected.[1]

Around 1700, the château had French gardens with hedged squares and crescents.[2]

The château was occupied during the last decades of his life by the exiled English politician Lord Bolingbroke (1678–1751), who wrote many of his works there.[3]

Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse (1826–1898), the French conchologist, lived in the château until his death there on 7 August 1898.[4]

References

  1. ^ Base Mérimée: Domaine d'Argeville, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  2. ^ Franck Matagrin, Vernou et le château d'Argeville, p 106 Huguenin (Melun, 1905) The online source includes plans of the garden from the French national archive.
  3. ^ Dickinson, H. T. (2004). "St John, Henry, styled first Viscount Bolingbroke". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24496. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
    Yorke, Philip Chesney (1911). "Bolingbroke, Henry St John, Viscount" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 161–164.
  4. ^ Journal de conchyliologie vol 67 no. 1, 1899, pages 21-2

48°23′23″N 2°51′13″E / 48.3898°N 2.8535°E / 48.3898; 2.8535


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