Argenteuil
Argenteuil | |
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.jpg) The Pont d'Argenteuil over the River Seine | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
 Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs | |
Location of Argenteuil  | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Île-de-France |
| Department | Val-d'Oise |
| Arrondissement | Argenteuil |
| Intercommunality | EPT Boucle Nord de Seine |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2014-2020) | Georges Mothron (UMP) |
| Area 1 | 17.22 km2 (6.65 sq mi) |
| Population (2013) | 106,817 |
| • Density | 6,200/km2 (16,000/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 95018 /95100 |
| Elevation | 21–167 m (69–548 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Argenteuil (French pronunciation: [aʁʒɑ̃tœj]) is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 12.3 km (7.6 mi) 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 most populous commune in the suburbs of Paris (after Boulogne-Billancourt) and the most populous one in the Val-d'Oise department, although it is not its prefecture, which is shared between the communes of Cergy and Pontoise.
Name
The name Argenteuil is recorded for the first time in a royal charter of 697 as Argentoialum, from a Latin/Gaulish root argento meaning "silver", "silvery", "shiny", perhaps in reference to the gleaming surface of the river Seine, on the banks of which Argenteuil is located, and from a Celtic suffix -ialo meaning "clearing, glade" or "place of".
History
Argenteuil was founded as a convent in the 7th century (see Pierre Abélard and the Convent of Argenteuil). The monastery that arose from the convent was destroyed during the French Revolution.
A rural escape for Parisians, it is now a suburb of Paris. Painters made Argenteuil famous, including Claude Monet, Jean-Étienne Delacroix, Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, Alfred Sisley and Georges Braque.
Personalities
- Fabien Ateba, basketball player
- Franck Beria, footballer
- Georges Braque, 3 May 1882, Co-founder of cubism and sculptor
- Ingrid Chauvin, (b. 3 October 1971), French actress
- Chevalier d'Argenteuil, (fl. in Newfoundland, Canada 1709-13), French soldier; he captured Fort William at St. John's, Newfoundland in 1709
- Sidney Duteil television host
- Ibrahim Gary, karateka
- Alexandre Ndoye, basketball player
Transport
Argenteuil is served by two stations on the Transilien Paris – Saint-Lazare suburban rail line: Argenteuil and Val d'Argenteuil.
Education
As of 2016[update] the commune's schools have over 12,000 students. The commune has:[1]
- 30 public preschools (maternelles) and one private elementary school with a preschool[2]
- 26 public and 2 private elementary schools[3]
- 11 junior high schools (collèges) - 10 public and 1 private[4]
- 6 senior high schools/sixth-form colleges:[5]
Paris 13 University serves as the area university.[6]
The Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental de Musique, Danse et Théâtre is located in Argenteuil.[7] André Bon is one of its former students.
Population
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Immigration
| Born in metropolitan France | Born outside metropolitan France | |||
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| 77.5% | 22.5% | |||
| Born in overseas France |
Born in foreign countries with French citizenship at birth1 | EU-15 immigrants2 | Non-EU-15 immigrants | |
| 2.1% | 2.1% | 4.3% | 14.0% | |
| 1 This group is made up largely of former French settlers, such as pieds-noirs in Northwest 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. | ||||
Famous paintings of Argenteuil
- 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" "Snow at Argenteuil"
- By other painters
"Argenteuil" and "Seine near Argenteuil" by Édouard Manet; "Regatta at Argenteuil", by Auguste Renoir; "The Bridge in Argenteuil", by Gustave Caillebotte
Gallery
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Claude Monet - The Seine at Argenteuil, 1874 -
Édouard Manet — Argenteuil, 1875 -
Édouard Manet — The Seine near Argenteuil, 1874
See also
References
- ^ "établissements scolaires." Argenteuil. Retrieved on September 6, 2016. "Plus de 12 000 élèves prennent le chemin de l’école tous les matins."
- ^ "Les maternelles." Argenteuil. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.
- ^ "Liste des écoles élémentaires d'Argenteuil." Argenteuil. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.
- ^ "Les collèges." Argenteuil. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.
- ^ Home. Argenteuil. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.
- ^ "Université Paris 13." Argenteuil. Retrieved on September 6, 2016.
- ^ "Argenteuil Conservatory". Retrieved 2009-08-28.
- ^ "Springtime". The Walters Art Museum.
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