Square de l'Aspirant-Dunand, Urban park in 14th arrondissement, Paris, France.

The square de l'Aspirant-Dunand is a green space in the Petit-Montrouge quarter, laid out on the site of the former Brézin covered market. It holds about forty trees, mostly plane trees, a cedar of Lebanon, and a fountain by Gilbert Privat whose bas-relief shows two nude female figures drinking around a mask. A statue of Michel Servet by Jean Baffier stands among shrub beds and hedges.

In October 1848 a liberty poplar from the Bois de Vincennes was planted on what was then the place de Montrouge; it was struck by lightning in 1936. Under Haussmann the square in front of the enlarged 14th arrondissement town hall was laid out, and the covered marché Brézin, built in 1866 on the Baltard model, stood here until its demolition in 1932, when the square replaced it. A 25-metre pool was built beneath it in 1982, and in 1996 a cedar of Lebanon was planted in honour of Gibran Khalil Gibran.

The name honours Jean-Louis Dunand, a local child and aspirant (officer cadet) killed on 20 June 1940, son of the artist Jean Dunand. The square also holds Jean Baffier's 1908 statue of the theologian Michel Servet, first meant for the place Maubert; the writer Henri Calet described it in Le tout sur le tout as a secular saint, chained and ragged with a long goatee.

Reach the square from the allée Françoise-d'Eaubonne, a pedestrian, planted passage linking it directly to the square Ferdinand-Brunot, or from rue Pierre-Castagnou and rue Jacques-Perrin, which opens onto place Jacques-Demy. Metro line 4 stops at Mouton-Duvernet. The 25-metre pool occupies the basement, and the sandy ground with its two concrete table-tennis tables is the flattest spot.

The large cedar of Lebanon was planted in 1996, not 1982, in homage to the Lebanese poet and painter Gibran Khalil Gibran. The square itself occupies the site of the 1866 Brézin covered market, demolished in 1932. Beneath the lawn lies a 25-metre swimming pool, opened in 1982.