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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 April, 1364, in conjunction with Boucicault, he recovered Mantes and Meulan from the King of Navarre; and in May he defeated the Navarrese under Captal de Buch at Cocherel, and took their leader prisoner.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Yes, yes, yes, an accomplice of Siméon's, whom Siméon, knowing that he would be followed to the Gare Saint-Lazare, instructs in this way to direct me to Mantes for the second time.

From The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice

Benjamin Franklin, the uninterrupted conduit for the gold, the series of clues that reveal themselves of their own accord, the man and the bags meeting at Mantes, the Belle Hélène: no, it all worried me.

From The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice

I imagine that, in the burrows of the Tachytes, the grub, when its heap of Mantes is consumed, moves from cell to cell until it has satisfied its appetite.

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