Argenteuil

Argenteuil is a commune inside the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is positioned 12.3 km from the center of Paris. Argenteuil is a sub prefecture of the Val d Oise department, the seat of the arrondissement of Argenteuil. Argenteuil is the second maximum populous commune inside the suburbs of Paris and the maximum populous one inside the Val d Oise department, although it isn't always its prefecture that is shared between the communes of Cergy and Pontoise. Argenteuil shares borders with communes in 3 departments others than Val d Oise the Yvelines, Hauts de Seine and Seine Saint Denis departments.

The call Argenteuil is recorded for the primary time in a royal constitution of 697 as Argentoialum, from a Latin or Gaulish root argento which means silver, silvery, brilliant probably in reference to the sparkling floor of the river Seine, at the banks of which Argenteuil is placed, and from a Celtic suffix ialo which means clearing, glade or area of. Argenteuil was based as a convent within the 7th century. The monastery that arose from the convent turns into destroyed for the duration of the French Revolution.