The Château d'Argeville is a

château A château (, ; plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking re ...

in the commune of

Vernou-la-Celle-sur-Seine Vernou-la-Celle-sur-Seine () is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Vernou-la-Celle-sur-Seine is the twin town to Manorbier, in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, and was twinned in ...

Seine-et-Marne Seine-et-Marne () is a department in the Île-de-France region in Northern France. Named after the rivers Seine and Marne, it is the region's largest department with an area of 5,915 square kilometres (2,284 square miles); it roughly covers its ...

, France. Some elements of the château date from the 17th century, and those and parts of its grounds are listed as a ''

monument historique () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, ...

'' by the

French Ministry of Culture The Ministry of Culture () is the ministry (government department), ministry of the Government of France in charge of List of museums in France, national museums and the . Its goal is to maintain the French identity through the promotion and pro ...

. The château itself, being partially destroyed, is not protected. Around 1700, the château had French gardens with hedged squares and crescents. The château was occupied during the last decades of his life by the exiled English politician

Lord Bolingbroke Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (; 16 September 1678 – 12 December 1751) was an English politician, government official and political philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories, and supported the Church of England politically ...

(1678–1751), who wrote many of his works there.

Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse (1 October 1826 in Paris – 7 August 1898) was a French conchologist. With Paul-Henri Fischer (1835–1893) he was co-editor of ''Journal de Conchyliologie'' (from 1861). Crosse was the author of over 300 works ...

(1826–1898), the French

conchologist Conchology, from Ancient Greek κόγχος (''kónkhos''), meaning "cockle (bivalve), cockle", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study", is the study of mollusc shells. Conchology is one aspect of malacology, the study of mollus ...

, lived in the château until his death there on 7 August 1898.''Journal de conchyliologie''
vol 67 no. 1, 1899, pages 21-2

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* Châteaux in Seine-et-Marne {{France-castle-stub