work in progress
Between September 2020 and February 2021, École nationale supérieure de paysage raised € 60,000 thanks to the support of 400 donors. The restoration of three trellising structures out of the fourteen that need urgent restoration was initiated.
The work on the wrought iron structures themselves was entrusted to the Forge d'Art Loubière, a living heritage iron works company located in Maine-et-Loire (Loire Valley). The operations are under the responsibility of the Chief Architect of Historical Monuments. Fourteen trellising structures were designated as the first needing to be restored. These have been programmed over six years, with two or three structures being taken down and rebuilt each year. The replanting of the fruit trees is considered as part of the process. Between June and October 2021, the extraction, taking apart, refurbishing and re-installing of the first three lines was accomplished. The first trees will be replanted during autumn and winter 2022-2023.
A state-of-the-art intervention
In order to prepare the work on the first three trellising structures by the ironsmiths, the Potager du Roi gardeners cut down and removed the old pear trees. The trees were dying and, in some cases, already dead. The Forge d'Art Loubière then came to the garden, identified and examined all the parts, removed the lower re-enforcements, separated the metal structure from the stone foundations and brought the pieces back to their smithy-workshop. It is only there that they entirely separated the different pieces. All the different elements go through a process of individual conservation, restoration and refurbishment. The structure is put back together in the workshop in order to make any necessary adjustments before the final steps of sandblasting, metallizing and painting. The return to the site and the putting back together of the structure took place in October 2021. The trellises were set back into their stone foundations with lead sealing and the horizontal training wires installed. After having revitalized the soil, the gardeners will replant pear trees next autumn and winter 2022-2023. Save the date!
Choosing the varieties
All of the first three restored trellising structures are located on the East side of the Grand Carré. Winter pears will be planted to be guided by these structures during the autumn-winter of 2022-2023. École nationale supérieure de paysage has mobilized a group of outside experts to participate in the choice of varieties. A pre-selection has been made according to criteria relating to the season, vigour, fertility and quality as well as history of the fruit. Bergamote de Bugey, Catillac, Colmar and Virgouleuse are among those being studied. In addition to being ripe for eating in the height of winter, these four varieties all possess great vigour – a neccessity for shaping Legendre palmettes - and were already known to La Quintinie in the 17th century. La Quintinie writes that the Bergamote de Bugey has a flesh which is "at the same time firm and tender and, so to speak, is almost brittle", while "the flesh [of the Colmar] is supple and the water very soft and very sweet”. As for the Virgouleuse, it is one of his favourites, while he classifies the Catillac, among "those I know to be so bad that I do not advise anyone to plant them". Today, if this variety is still not good fresh, it has been judged as one of the best when cooked!
Many thanks to...
Our 400 donors who joined our first fundraising campaign and made possible this major restoration project, as well as to our patron agnès b. and her team for their support from the beginning through the design of an exclusive tote bag.
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Marc Alberman
Martine Amiot
Association des Amis du Potager du Roi
Cindy Arnold
Paul Arnould
Maxime Arnoux
Alizée Meissonnier et Arthur Aubin
Christos Astaris
Catherine Astor-Veyres
Olivier Aubry
Jean-Luc Augustin
Rémy Auriat
Véronique Ausseur
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Raphael Babusiaux
Stéphanie Bachelard
Geneviève Barrère
Jean Baudequin
Jean-Michel Benet
Lorenzo Bergomi
Cécile Berthonneau
Hugues Bertuel
Sandrine Bessoles
Claire Bevilacqua
Marie-Christine Bonnefond
François Bonnet
Annick Bonnet
Micheline Bonnet
Pierre Bontoux
Philippe Boreaniz
Georges Bouchard
Blandine Boureau
Ingrid et Michel Bourne
Florian, Victor et Quentin Bouvier
Hélène Bras
Joelle Brochen
Martine et Yves Brunschwick
Dominique Bulle
Timothy et Jessica Butler
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Aurélia Cabanis
Marianne Cabanis
François Cabot
Kristell Cabrol
Christiane Candillon
Monique Cantin
Cartis Classic Car Experience
Fabrice Caravo
Daniela Carneiro Fuentes
Jean-Claude Chaboseau
Catherine Chadefaud-Dubois
Catherine Chagnon
Marie Chapelon
Victor-Fabien Charpentier Adorni
Eliane Chaumont
Christine Chauvin
Alain et Annick Chekroun
Anne Chone
Pascal Choquet
France Choulet
Patrick Chretienne
Jérôme Classe
Corinne Clavel
Marie-Pierre Coeuignart
Nicolas Cognard
Ghylaine Collard
Hélène Common
Marie-Christine Corrion
Jean-Marc Coubé
Philippe Couillet-Bourgeois
Hervé Cousin
Monique et François Cousson
Laurent Crasson
Suzanne Cronquist
Catherine Crowley
Antonia Csillik
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Olivier Dalibert
Thibault Daly
Emmanuelle Daniel
Gilles Dargnies
Pierre Dauvergne
Jeanne David
Jeanne De Beaufort
Agnès De Castelnau
Jean De Charon
Isabelle De Lajarte
Charles De Valroger
Bertrand De Varax
Pascal Decary
Odile Decroix
Odile Deffayet
Hubert Delarue
Marie Delignat-Lavaud
Marius Delsol
Olivier Dennery
Sandrine Denos
Geneviève Deschamps
Aissatou Diallo
Georges Dobias
Françoise Dole
Isabelle Donat
Noëlle Dorion
Agnès & Sylvain Dross
Stéphane Dubourdieu
Arnauld Duboys Fresney
Fabienne Dubruel
Catherine Dumont
Jean-Marc Dupre
Eric Duriez
Alain Durnerin
Faustine Dutreil
Martine Duverger
Christine Dyja
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Sylvain Egret
Brian Ejarque
Sylvie Espinasse
Morgane Ezanno
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Pascal Farrando
Olivier Faucher
Monique Faure
Armelle Faure
Denis Feignier
Laurent Felin
Philippe Ferriere
Agathe & Grégoire Feunteun
Edouard Filho
Christine Flandre
Béatrice et Claude Floch
Sylvain Fourny
Anne Franco
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Simon Gabillard
Laurent Gadreau
Bruno Galempoix
Micheline Gantheret
Marie-Julie Garnier
Frédéric Gaurat
Philippe Gerbet
Jean-Louis Germain
Okan Germiyanoglu
Nicole Gibout
Catherine Goepfer
Yannick Gomez
Stéphane Goueffon
Christiane Goujaud
Corinne Goumand
Jeanne-Emma Graciet
Solange Grumel
Ony Guery
Svetlana Guigues
Philippe Guihard
Frédéric Guimard
Claire-Lise Guinin
Florence Guinle
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Salomé Haas
Eleonora Harwich
Jean-Paul Hedouin
Christian Helouin
Sylvain Hendrickx
Micheline Hotyat
Lydia et Jean Hourtoule
Chun Hurson
Nicole Hutin
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Stéphane Illes
Sorya Im
Tomoko Inaba
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Guillaume Jablonka
Martine Jablonski-Cahours
Antoine Jacobsohn
Jean-Paul Jacquemart
Matthias et David Jakobowicz
Luc Jeannin Natlet
Maureen Joffroy
Nicole Juhen
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Dagmar Kalthoff
Colette Kermabon
Martine et Daniel Kermann
Jean-François Kling
Blanche, Louis et Jean Kremeur
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Thierry La Maida
Mado de La Quintinie
Dominique Laboureix
Muriel et Marc Lachenaud
Pierre Laigros
Valérie Laugero
Claudine Lavaud
Yann Le Bonniec
Magali Le Coënt
Anna Le Danvic
Patrice Le François
Hervé Le Goff
Pierre Le Laouénan
Alix Le Masson
Claire Le Texier
Eric Leblond
Alain Leclercq
Aude Leday-Jacquet
François Legal
Florence Legros
Gérard Leloup
Jean-Claude Lengrand
Fabrice Lenica
Association Les Vergers retrouvés du Comminges
Odile Libron
Colette Llech
Yvonne Lombard
Christine Longin
Eva Lothar
Stephan Ludot-Ingrain
Vincent Lutton
Sandra Luttrin
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Sophie et Arnaud Maecker Guiguin
Famille Maestracci
Françoise Magueur
Claude Malengrea
Hélène Malhaire
Guillaume Malingri
Véronique Mangold
Gladys Marcelin
Irène Marlin
Astrid Marlin
Corinne Martial
Jean Martinet
Daniel et Elisabeth Maslowski
Yann Masson
Laszlo & Nathalie Maurel
Robert Mereau
Anne-Marie Mernier
Jean-Paul Mialot
Danièle Millasseau
Philippe Millet
Joel Minot
Franziska Mittelacher
Régine Molloff
Patrick Montagner
Maleen Moulien
André Mourgues
Marc Moutafis
Cyril Mouton
Otto Muller
Martine Müller
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Eric Nalepa
Eric Nerot
Patrick Normand
Christophe Nourdin
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Marine Orhan
Clélia Ortoli
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Valentine Paicheur
Benoît Pallot
Frédéric Paris et Françoise Renard
Edith Parisot
Laure Pasquer
Catherine Pauchet
Lionel Pernot
Marie Perra
Pierrette Perreault
Olga Pestel
Philippe Petit-Jean
Elvina Piard-Aubert
Marie-Laure Piednoir
Marie-France Pihet
Marie Claire & Alain Pinel
Christian Piotrowski
Vincent Piveteau
Lucile Piveteau-Guyomarc'h
Xavier Piveteau-Guyomarc'h
Olivier Poirier
Robert Pope
Fabienne Praly
Françoise Prodhomme
Virginie et Jean Provensal
Xavier Prétot
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Patrick Ravaud
Coralie Renard
Eliane Rimbaud
Geneviève Roger
Nicolas Rohart
Jean Rohart
Françoise Roidot
Guillaume Rouard
Marie-Dominique Rouviere
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ÉLÉFILM SAS
Annie Sabatier
Mademoiselle Saint Germain
Alix de Saint Venant
Jean-Claude Samuel
Christine Sanchis
Chiara Santini
Yvan Sarret
Isabelle Sarrois
Vincent Schurr
Frédéric Seguette
Françoise Seï
Juliette Sibillat
Nicolas et Marie-Pierre Silvestre
Hélène Sneed
Philippe Sonnet
Catherine Steffen
Sylvie Strumza
Fabienne Suard
Guillaume Séraphine
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Christian Tardivel
Thomas Tari
Ana Teodorescu
Stéphanie Tesson
Joris Thau
Armelle Thiebaut-Thomas
Isabelle et Jean-Frank Thomas
Bernard Torrin
Françoise Touboul
Thierry Tourbe
Rose Touzet
Audrey Tricoit
Sandy Tricoit-Charpiot
Daniel Trochu
Nicole Turner
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Ludovic Ulliel
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Delphine Van Blitz
Jacques Vanderpotte
Karin Varenne
Nicole Veau
Natalie Verne
Isabelle Veron
Martine Vidal
James Vilain
Pierre Volatier
Christiane Volland
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Lory Waks
Michèle Waks
Hubert Watine
Abigail Weitzenfeld
Alain Wiederle
agnès b.
patron of the first campaign
Agnès Troublé, commonly known as agnès b., chose to support the first fundraising campaign as a patron in 2020. Born in Versailles, she wanted to share her attachment to Potager du Roi, a site that represents a inexhaustible source of inspiration for the designer for many years. agnès b. conceived a thank you gift for the donors of the campaign: the agnès b. tote bag “our potager du Roi”
03.18.22
Objective €65,000
02.08.22
Reaching 75% of our goal !
01.19.22
50% of the objective has been exceeded! On the way to reaching 100%
01.14.22
New exclusive rewards await you!
11.23.21
The 2021 restoration works
11.22.21
2nd edition of mon potager, c'est le Potager du Roi fundraising campaign
