Mantes

Mantes, a town in the French department of Seine-et-Oise, on the left bank of the Seine, 36 miles by rail WNW. of Paris. It has a striking tower (1344) and a beautiful church, a reduced copy of Notre Dame at Paris. The ancient Medunta, a town of the Celts, Mantes in 1083 was sacked by William the Conqueror, who here received the injury that caused his death; and here too Henry IV. was converted from Protestantism. Pop. 6607.