Argenteuil is the fourth most populous commune in the suburbs of Paris (afterBoulogne-Billancourt,Saint-Denis, andMontreuil) and the most populous one in the Val-d'Oise department, although it is not its prefecture, which is shared between the communes ofCergy andPontoise.
The name Argenteuil is recorded for the first time in a royalcharter of 697 asArgentoialum, from aLatin/Gaulish rootargento meaning "silver", "silvery", "shiny", perhaps in reference to the gleaming surface of the riverSeine, on the banks of which Argenteuil is located, and from aGaulish language suffix-ialo[3] meaning "clearing, glade" or "place of".
Argenteuil was founded as aconvent in the 7th century (seePierre Abélard and the Convent of Argenteuil). Themonastery that arose from the convent was later destroyed during theFrench Revolution.
Since redeveloped by STIF and SNCF, Argenteuil has been equipped with the new Paris-Saint-Lazare-Ermont-Eaubonne line. The new line was launched in 2006, adding the Paris-Saint Lazare / Cormeilles-en-Parisis - Pontoise / Mantes-la-Jolie service to Paris for about ten minutes.
In June 2025, the demolition and reconstruction of the "Château" social housing building in the Val-Notre-Dame district is part of a vast urban renewal project.[13]
1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such aspieds-noirs inNorthwest Africa, followed by former colonial citizens who had French citizenship at birth (such as was often the case for the native elite in French colonies), as well as to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. A foreign country is understood as a country not part of France in 1999, so a person born for example in 1950 in Algeria, when Algeria was an integral part of France, is nonetheless listed as a person born in a foreign country in French statistics.
2 An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. An immigrant may have acquired French citizenship since moving to France, but is still considered an immigrant in French statistics. On the other hand, persons born in France with foreign citizenship (the children of immigrants) are not listed as immigrants.
In his 1872 painting,Springtime, Monet was interested in studying how unblended dabs of color could suggest the effect of brilliant sunlight filtered through leaves[19] TheWalters Art Museum.
By Claude Monet:
Autumn at Argenteuil,Regatta at Argenteuil,Red Boats, Argenteuil,The Bridge at Argenteuil,The Port at Argenteuil,The Seine at Argenteuil,View of Argenteuil-Snow,Bords de la Seine a Argenteuil, andSnow at Argenteuil.AndTrain in snow at Argenteuil.
^"Répertoire national des élus: les maires".data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved12 December 2020.
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