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Argenteuil

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Ar·gen·teuil  (är-zhä-ty)
A city of northern France, a residential and industrial suburb of Paris on the Seine River. It grew around a convent founded by Charlemagne in the seventh century. Population: 101,000.

Argenteuil (French) [arʒɑ̃tœj]
n
(Placename) a suburb of Paris, France, with a convent (656) that became famous when Héloïse was abbess (12th century). Pop.: 93  096 (1990)


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She spent the most of her childhood in the convent of Argenteuil --never heard of Argenteuil before, but suppose there was really such a place.
 
 
 
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