Argenteuil, a town in the French department of Seine-et-Oise, on the Seine, 6 miles NW. of Paris. Its priory, now in ruins, was founded in 656, and was by Charlemagne turned into a nunnery, of which the famous Heloise (see ABELARD) became abbess. Wine and vinegar are made here, and gypsum is quarried in the neighbourhood. Pop. (1881) 10,167; (1891) 11,799.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 1: A to Beaufort, p. 401
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