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]

Château d'Argeville

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. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 161–164.
  4. Journal de conchyliologie vol 67 no. 1, 1899, pages 21-2


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