Nature site · Paris 12e Arrondissement, Paris
Jardin d'agronomie tropicale René-Dumont
Jardin d’agronomie tropicale René-Dumont occupies the eastern edge of the Bois de Vincennes, beside Nogent-sur-Marne in Paris’s 12th arrondissement. The site began in 1899 as a colonial experimental garden, where researchers tested tropical crops and propagated plants intended for production in French colonies. It was inaugurated for the 1907 Colonial Exhibition, which introduced reconstructed settings and buildings associated with Indochina, Madagascar, the Congo, Sudan and the Tuareg world.
Today, the garden is a historical landscape as much as a green space. Its surviving features include the Chinese Gate, the Indochinese memorial pagoda, remnants of former exhibition buildings and monuments commemorating colonial troops who died for France. The site’s layered history also includes its use as a hospital for colonial troops during the First World War. That colonial context is central to understanding the garden: the surviving architecture and vegetation are physical traces of an exhibition system that presented colonised territories through a French imperial lens.
The municipal listing gives the address as 45 bis, avenue de la Belle-Gabrielle. It currently states that the garden is closed until further notice, so visitors should verify reopening before planning a visit.
Checked 2026-09-02
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