Argenteuil

For other uses, see Argenteuil (disambiguation).

Argenteuil
Subprefecture and commune
The Basilica of Argenteuil (fr) The Basilica of Argenteuil
Coat of arms
Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Val-d'Oise
Arrondissement	Argenteuil
Canton	Argenteuil-1 Argenteuil-2 Argenteuil-3
Intercommunality	Métropole du Grand Paris EPT Boucle Nord Seine
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Georges Mothron
Area1	17.22 km2 (6.65 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)2
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. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Argenteuil (fr) 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 part of the Métropole du Grand Paris.

Argenteuil is the fourth most populous commune in the suburbs of Paris (after Boulogne-Billancourt, Saint-Denis, and Montreuil) 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.

Argenteuil shares borders with communes in 3 departements others than Val d'Oise : the Yvelines, Hauts-de-Seine, and Seine-Saint-Denis departements.

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 Gaulish language 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 later destroyed during the French Revolution.

A rural escape for Parisians, it is now a suburb of Paris. Painters made Argenteuil famous, including Claude Monet, Eugène Delacroix, Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, Alfred Sisley and Georges Braque.

Transport

Argenteuil is served by two stations on the Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare suburban rail line, which are Argenteuil and Val d'Argenteuil.

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.

By Bus* :

361 Gare d'Argenteuil à Gare de Pierrefitte - Stains RER;

140 Gare d'Argenteuil - Asnières-Gennevilliers - Gabriel Péri;

164 Argenteuil - Claude Monet College - Porte de Champerret;

By train* :

Gare d'Argenteuil (SNCF-J): Paris Saint-Lazare in 15 minutes and Colombes in 4 minutes

Gare Saint-Gratien (T-8): Porte Maillot in 22 minutes

Épinay Orgemont (T-8): Gare Saint-Denis in 20 minutes

Travel by car:

City centre: 10 minutes;

Paris Saint-Lazare: 25 minutes

La Défense: 20 minutes;

Colombes: 10 minutes;

la Plaine-Saint-Denis: 18 minutes;

Porte de Clichy: 15 minutes;

Education

As of 2016, the commune's schools have over 12,000 students. The commune has:

• 30 public preschools (maternelles) and one private elementary school with a preschool
• 26 public and 2 private elementary schools
• 11 junior high schools (collèges) - 10 public and 1 private
• 6 senior high schools/sixth-form colleges:
  • Lycée Georges Braque
  • Lycée Cognacq-Jay
  • Lycée Julie-Victoire Daubié
  • Lycée Jean Jaurès
  • Lycée Fernand et Nadia Léger
  • Ecole nationale des professions de l'automobile (private)

Paris 13 University serves as the area university.

The Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental de Musique, Danse et Théâtre is located in Argenteuil. André Bon is one of its former students.

Population

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 5,356 —     1800 4,609 −2.12% 1806 4,249 −1.35% 1821 4,423 +0.27% 1831 4,542 +0.27% 1836 4,536 −0.03% 1841 4,377 −0.71% 1846 4,586 +0.94% 1851 4,767 +0.78% 1856 5,857 +4.20% 1861 7,269 +4.41% 1866 8,176 +2.38% 1872 8,389 +0.43% 1876 8,990 +1.74% 1881 11,849 +5.68% 1886 12,809 +1.57% 1891 13,339 +0.81% 1896 15,116 +2.53%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 17,375 +2.82% 1906 19,829 +2.68% 1911 24,282 +4.14% 1921 32,173 +2.85% 1926 44,538 +6.72% 1931 70,657 +9.67% 1936 59,314 −3.44% 1946 53,543 −1.02% 1954 63,316 +2.12% 1962 82,321 +3.34% 1968 90,480 +1.59% 1975 102,530 +1.80% 1982 95,347 −1.03% 1990 93,096 −0.30% 1999 93,961 +0.10% 2007 102,572 +1.10% 2012 104,962 +0.46% 2017 110,210 +0.98%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968–2017)

Immigration

Place of birth of residents of Argenteuil in 1999 Born in Metropolitan France Born outside Metropolitan France 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% ¹This 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), and to a lesser extent foreign-born children of French expatriates. Note that 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. ²An immigrant is a person born in a foreign country not having French citizenship at birth. Note that 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.

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in France

Argenteuil is twinned with:

• Alessandria, Italy
• Dessau-Roßlau, Germany
• Hunedoara, Romania
• West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Notable people

• Héloïse (c. 1100/01 – 1163/64), nun, philosopher and writer
• Charles Longuet (1839–1903, journalist and socialist activist
• Claude Monet (1840–1926), painter, lived and worked here in 1871–1878
• Georges Braque (1882–1963), painter, sculptor and co-founder of cubism
• Sidney Duteil (born 1955), musician and television host
• Ingrid Chauvin (born 1971), actress
• Thomas Henry (born 1994), professional footballer
• Franck Béria (born 1983), retired professional footballer and functionary
• Ibrahim Gary (born 1985), karateka
• Fabien Ateba (born 1991), basketball player
• Kevin Mayer (born 1992), athlete, Olympic medalist
• Cécile Pelous, philanthropist and designer
• Laurina Fazer (born 2003), footballer for France

Famous paintings of Argenteuil

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 The Walters 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, and Snow at Argenteuil. And Train in snow at Argenteuil.

• By other painters:

Argenteuil and Seine near Argenteuil by Édouard Manet, Regatta at Argenteuil by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and The Bridge in Argenteuil by Gustave Caillebotte.

Gallery

• Claude Monet - The Seine at Argenteuil 1873.jpg

  Claude Monet, The Seine at Argenteuil, 1873

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  Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil, 1873

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  Édouard Manet, The Seine near Argenteuil, 1874

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  Claude Monet, The Seine at Argenteuil, 1874

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  Édouard Manet, Argenteuil, 1875

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  Claude Monet, Bords de la Seine à Argenteuil, 1875

See also

• Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

External links

• Official website Archived 18 January 2022 at the Wayback Machine
• Official facebook
• Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise