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Patton's tanks established a bridgehead by night across the Seine at Mantes, 25 miles northwest of Paris.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the spring the equipage goes to Rosny, near Mantes, and perhaps during the same season occasionally to Rambouillet.

From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by McManus, Blanche

His next hope for a bridge was at Mantes, and he was getting perilously near the heart of the country and the gathering French forces.

From Crécy by Belloc, Hilaire

The riddle is deciphered: the Meloid that eats Praying Mantes is Schaeffer's Cerocoma, of whom I find plenty, in the spring, on the blossoms of the everlasting.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

The traveller who goes by Mantes commonly has in his pocket a ticket for Paris, which enables him to spend a day at Rouen, but not to spend a day at Mantes.

From Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine by Hutton, William Holden