Nickel silver, also known as German silver, Argentan, new silver, nickel brass, albata ,, or alpacca, is a copper alloy with nickel and often zinc.

Argentan is located NE of Rennes, ENE of the Mont Saint-Michel, SE of Cherbourg, SSE of Caen, SW of Rouen and N of Le Mans.

Argentan is situated near the Orne River.

Argentan lace or Point d ' Argentan is a needle lace from the 18th century.

In its advance from Avranches to Argentan the Third Army advanced unopposed over vast distances, covering in just two weeks.

The Third Army simultaneously attacked west ( into Brittany ), south, east toward the Seine, and north, assisting in trapping several hundred thousand German soldiers in the Chambois pocket, between Falaise and Argentan, Orne.

* Orne ( named after the river ): Sées, Argentan

* Argentan, France

* Henry I Clément, called the " Little Marshal ", Lord of Le Mez and of Argentan ( 1170 – 1214 ), Marshal of France in 1204

* Jean III Clément, Lord of Le Mez and of Argentan ( died 1262 ), Marshal of France in 1214

* Henri II Clément, Lord of Le Mez and Argentan ( died 1265 ), Marshal of France in 1262

In 1094 Rufus sent Roger to hold the castle at Argentan in Normandy, but Roger surrendered it to Philip I of France on the first day of the siege ; Roger and his men were held for ransom and purchased their freedom.

The operation had been a success, despite a fierce German counter-attack on 7 August codenamed Operation Lüttich, and a number of German divisions had become trapped between the four towns of Trun, Argentan, Vimoutiers and Chambois near Falaise in France in what had been labelled the Falaise Pocket.

Afterwards, Eleanor proceeded to gather together her movable possessions in England and transport them on several ships in December to Argentan.

After having travelled to England and discovered William James ' invention, the French physician Manuel Théodore Guillaumet, from Argentan ( Normandy ), patented in 1838 the oldest known regulator mechanism.

Stephen was less successful, however, in regaining the Argentan province along the Normandy and Anjou border, which Geoffrey had taken at the end of 1135.

From the first Geoffrey Plantagenet tried to profit by his marriage and, after the death of Henry I ( 1 December 1135 ), laid the foundation of the conquest of Normandy by a series of campaigns: about the end of 1135 or the beginning of 1136 he entered that country and rejoined his wife, the countess Matilda, who had received the submission of Argentan, Domfront and Exmes.

Possession of Caen and its surroundings would give Second Army a suitable staging area for a push south to capture the city of Falaise, which could then be used as a pivot for a swing left to advance on Argentan, the Touques River and then towards the River Seine.

Stephen was less successful, however, in regaining the Argentan province along the Normandy and Anjou border, which Geoffrey had taken at the end of 1135.

Any American troops in the vicinity of Argentan were ordered to be withdrawn.

Still registered as tradenames are Alpaka or Alpacca ( registered trademark ), Argentan Minargent, and the French term name Cuivre blanc.

Geitner and J. R. von Gersdoff of Schneeburg duly won the prize and launched their " German silver " under the trade names Argentan and Neusilber ( new silver )

Eugène Boudin was born in Honfleur and Fernand Léger in Argentan.

During World War II, Operation Defoe was a reconnaissance patrol by 21 men of the Special Air Service conducted from 19 July to 23 August to support the British Second Army in the Argentan area of Normandy.

Turning north, the division surrounded the Germans in Normandy by advancing, through Le Mêle-sur-Sarthe liberated on 11 August, to the edge of the city of Argentan on 12 August — 8 days before the Argentan-Falaise Gap was closed.

Turning Argentan over to the 90th Infantry Division, the 5th Armored advanced 80 miles to capture the Eure River Line at Dreux on 16 August.

On 23 August 1944, Épinay was liberated by the " group Warabiot " of the 2nd armoured division ( the division Leclerc ) on its way from Argentan to Paris.

Possession of Caen and its surroundings — desirable for open terrain that would permit maneuver warfare — would also give Second Army a suitable staging area for a push south to capture Falaise, which could be used as the pivot for a swing right to advance on Argentan and then towards the Touques River.

Mézeray was born at Rye near Argentan, where his father was a surgeon.

While often referred to as the Battle of the Falaise Gap, Saint-Lambert was the last village in the narrowing gap between the Canadians and Polish forces advancing southwards from Falaise and Trun, and the American and Free French forces pushing northwards from Argentan and Chambois.

As Hitler ordered German forces in Normandy to hold their positions, the U. S. VII and XV Corps were swinging east and north toward Argentan.

Azincourt (; historically, Agincourt in English ) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.

* 1945 – The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.

Ajaccio (;, ; ) is a commune on the island of Corsica in France.

The city of Ajaccio is one commune, but it contains six cantons, Cantons 1 – 6, and a fraction of Canton 7.

Barcelonnette () is a commune of France and a subprefecture in the department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d ' Azur region.

The commune is also vulnerable to avalanches, forest fires, floods, and landslides.

Bayonne (; Gascon and ) is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture.

An example of this is how the fundamental basis of Swiss citizenship is citizenship of an individual commune, from which follows citizenship of a canton and of the Confederation.

Casablanca is a commune, part of the Region of the Grand Casablanca.

The commune is divided into 8 districts or prefectures, which are themselves divided into 16 subdivisions or arrondissements and 1 municipality.

Cluny or Clugny is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne in eastern France.

The sub-zones are ( clockwise from the north ): the Colli Fiorentini which is located south of the city of Florence ; Chianti Rufina in the northeastern part of the zone located around the commune of Rufina ; Classico in the centre of Chianti, across the provinces of Florence and Siena ; Colli Aretini in the Arezzo province to the east ; Colli Senesi south of Chianti Classico in the Siena hills, which is the largest of the sub-zones and includes the Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano areas ; Colline Pisane, the westernmost sub-zone in the province of Pisa ; Montespertoli located within the Colli Fiorentini around the commune of Montespertoli ; Montalbano in the north-west part of the zone which includes the Carmignano DOCG.

Eth is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.

As a commune, the Juan Fernández Islands are a third-level administrative division of Chile governed by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years.

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, the commune is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Joaquín Godoy ( RN ) and Aldo Cornejo ( PDC ) as part of the 13th electoral district, ( together with Valparaíso and Isla de Pascua ).

The commune is represented in the Senate by Francisco Chahuán Chahuán ( RN ) and Ricardo Lagos Weber ( PPD ) as part of the 6th senatorial constituency ( Valparaíso-Coast ).

While admitting that Russia's rural " commune is the fulcrum of social regeneration in Russia ", Marx also warned that, in order for the mir to operate as a means for moving straight to the socialist stage without a preceding capitalist stage, it " would first be necessary to eliminate the deleterious influences which are assailing it ( the rural commune ) from all sides.

Déjacque wrote that: ‘ By government I understand all delegation, all power outside the people ,’ for which must be substituted, in a process whereby politics is transcended, the ‘ people in direct possession of their sovereignty ,’ or the ‘ organised commune .’ For Déjacque, the communist anarchist utopia would fulfil the function of inciting each proletarian to explore his or her own human potentialities, in addition to correcting the ignorance of the proletarians concerning ‘ social science .’"

" Property " is integrated into the commune as a material constituent of its libertarian institutional framework, indeed as a part of a larger whole that is controlled by the citizen body in assembly as citizens-not as vocationally oriented interest groups.