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Arboretum de Vendresse

garden in France

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ4784849 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Arboretum de Vendresse, also known as the Arboretum du Bois de la Vierge, is an arboretum located in Vendresse, Ardennes, Grand Est, France. It is open daily without charge.

The arboretum was established in 1912 by histologist Paul Bouin (1870–1962). It is located near the ruins of the Château de la Cassine, home of Louis of Gonzaga and Henriette de Clèves, and accessible from the path of the Bois de la Vierge. It contains a variety of local tree species, as well as an avenue planted with Douglas firs.

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“Arboretum de Vendresse” enters the record as garden in France. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Arboretum, Vendresse and garden can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1912, 1870, 1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Arboretum, Vendresse and garden.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4784849. Authority coordinates are 49.617, 4.800. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1912, 1870 and 1962.

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This entry incorporates text from “Arboretum de Vendresse” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.