Argenteuil

Town, Val-d'Oise d�partement, �le-de-France r�gion, France. It lies along the north bank of the Seine River, northwest of Paris. The town's name comes from silver (argent) deposits exploited there by the Gauls. Argenteuil grew up around a convent that was founded there in the 7th century and of which Charlemagne's daughter Th�orade may have been an early abbess. H�lo�se, of the