Argences

Argences (French pronunciation: [aʁʒɑ̃s] ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region of north-western France.

In 989, Richard I of Normandy donated land to the Abbey of Fécamp for the curates of Mondeville and Argences.

From that date, the domain of Mondeville was managed as an ecclesiastical fief by the Barony of Argences.

The line from Argences was closed in 1931 and the nearest station is now Moult-Argences (TER Basse-Normandie).

On 16 April 1942, a group of resistance fighters derailed a Maastricht-Cherbourg train two kilometres from Moult-Argences station in Airan commune causing 28 dead and 19 wounded - all German soldiers.

Arms of Argences
Arms of Argences