Parc Voyer d'Argenson, Urban park in Asnières-sur-Seine, France
Parc Voyer d'Argenson is an urban park in Asnières-sur-Seine covering about 8,400 square meters, where seven plane trees over 30 meters tall frame a small island with a summer pavilion. The park sits between Rue du Château and Quai du Docteur-Dervaux, offering spaces to rest and walk among century-old trees.
Marc-René d'Argenson, marquis de Voyer, bought the Seigneurie d'Asnières from Abbé Lemoyne and about twenty-three surrounding plots between 1750 and 1752, and the park belonged to the château d'Asnières. It was divided up from 1845; in 1886 Vital Pouget bought part of it and built the château Pouget there. The commune acquired the estate in 1926 and turned it into a public garden; the château, later a dispensary and a blood transfusion centre, was demolished in 1980.
Vincent van Gogh painted the park several times while living in Asnières in 1887, capturing the landscape and the structures he saw there.
The park lies between Rue du Château and Quai du Docteur-Dervaux, a short walk from the Seine. Paths run around the water body and its small island, so a loop passes the plane trees and the pavilion. The lawn beside the dirt path, where the white stone statue stands, is open ground rather than a marked route.
During initial construction of the grounds, workers found human remains and tombs, revealing that the site was once a Gallo-Roman cemetery. This discovery shows the location had a long history before becoming a pleasure garden.
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