Parc Pasteur d'Orléans, Public park in central Orléans, France
Parc Pasteur d'Orléans is a four-hectare park in central Orléans featuring formal gardens, broad lawns, and ornamental ponds. A network of pathways winds through the space beneath mature trees and past flowerbeds.
The land served as a vineyard until 1786, then operated as Saint-Vincent Cemetery until its transformation into a public park in 1927. This change gave the city a new recreational space.
The park displays several sculptures including La Source Humaine by Felix Charpentier and L'Homme au Loup by Georges Jacquot, which are woven into the landscape. These works shape how people experience the space as they walk through.
The park opens from 08:00 to 18:00 during winter time and from 07:45 to 20:00 during summer time (2025-2026). It lies in the Saint-Vincent district, about 900 metres north of the right bank of the Loire, within a square formed by the streets Eugène Vignat, Jules Lemaître, Ferdinand Buisson and Pierre Ier de Serbie, near the Pothier, Jean Zay and Benjamin Franklin lycées.
The carved portal of the former Saint-Samson chapel, once the entrance to Saint-Vincent Cemetery, was moved into the park as decoration. The park also holds a stele to King Peter I of Serbia, erected in 1930, and a bronze bust of Léon Chenault by Charles Million from 1931.
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