Mantes-la-Jolie
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| region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Yvelines | |
| Arrondissement | Mantes-la-Jolie | |
| Canton | Mantes-la-Jolie (main town) | |
| Community association | Grand Paris Seine et Oise | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 59 ′ N , 1 ° 43 ′ E | |
| height | 17-41 m | |
| surface | 9.38 km 2 | |
| Residents | 44,299 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 4,723 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 78200 | |
| INSEE code | 78361 | |
| Website | www.manteslajolie.fr | |
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Mantes-la-Jolie is a French municipality with 44,299 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Yvelines in the region Ile-de-France . It is the administrative seat of the arrondissement of Mantes-la-Jolie and the capital of the canton of Mantes-la-Jolie .
geography
Mantes-la-Jolie is a medium-sized industrial city on the left bank of the Seine , 53 kilometers west of Paris .
The name "Mantes" comes from the Gallic : medunta , the oak. The addition "la Jolie" ("the beautiful") comes from a letter that King Henry IV wrote to his lover Gabrielle d'Estrées , who resided in Mantes. The king wrote: "I come to Mantes, my beautiful one."
The community is located in the center of an agglomeration of around 80,000 people. Neighboring communities are Mantes-la-Ville and Buchelay in the south, Rosny-sur-Seine in the west, and - separated by the Seine - Limay and Follainville-Dennemont in the north.
Mantes-la-Jolie is on the A 13 motorway . The river Vaucouleurs flows into the Seine between Mantes-la-Jolie and Mantes-la-Ville .
The municipality has a train station on the Paris – Le Havre railway line . The railway line to Cherbourg branches off in Mantes .
history
Mantes was a port on the Seine at the time of the Carolingians , which was soon fortified due to its strategic location near the border with Normandy . Mantes thus served to protect Paris from enemy attacks along the river. The place was burned down in 1087 by William the Conqueror during his campaign in the Vexin . Louis VI. then (1110) granted the place the status of a "free city". King Philip II August died here on July 14, 1223. During the conflict with the English, the city changed hands frequently.
Upon the death of King Henry III. If Mantes was on the side of the Catholic League , he was then conquered by Henry IV , who set up his headquarters here with a view to the occupation of Paris. He later came frequently to Mantes to meet Gabrielle d'Estrées.
Originally the place was called "Mante", which became "Mantes" at the end of the 18th century , later, when the post office was set up and confusion with Nantes had to be ruled out, "Mantes-sur-Seine". After the incorporation of Gassicourt in the west, the city was called "Mantes-Gassicourt" from 1930; the current name dates from 1953.
Mantes was a sub-prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise department from 1800 until the establishment of the Yvelines department, with the exception of the years 1926 to 1943.
Attractions
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Mantes-la-Jolie
- Collégiale Notre Dame, 12th to 13th centuries, Monument historique since 1840
- Saint-Maclou tower from the 16th century, the last remains of a church demolished in 1806
- Church of Sainte-Anne in Gassicourt, Romanesque church from the 11th century
- The old Limay bridge, originally from the 12th century, which originally linked Limay and Mantes but was partially demolished in the 18th century to build the pont Peronnet , so today only a few arches remain; Monument historique since 1923 and painting by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (“Le pont de Mantes”), ( Musée du Louvre ).
Town twinning
Mantes is related to Hillingdon in England, Maia in Portugal and Schleswig in Germany.
Personalities
- Nicolas Bernier (* 1664, † 1734), composer
- Sylvère Caffot (* 1903, † 1993), composer
- Sandy Casar (* 1979), racing cyclist
- Faudel (* 1978), musician and actor
- Audrey Fleurot (born 1977), actress
- Ali Hallab (* 1981), boxer
- Charles III (* 1361, † 1425), King of Navarre
- Michel Leclère (* 1946), racing car driver
- Jean-Paul Mendy (* 1973), boxer
- Haby Niaré (* 1993), Taekwondoin
- Nicolas Pépé (* 1995), Ivorian-French football player
- Philip II (* 1165, † 1223), King of France
- Moussa Sow (* 1986), Senegalese soccer player
literature
- Sylvie Bergougnoux, Hèlène François, Véronique Icole, Stéphanie Maquart: Gassicourt, identité d'un village des origines à 1930 , Mantes-la-Jolie 2002.
- Alain Élande-Brandenburg (ed.): Mantes médiévale, la collégiale au cœur de la ville , Mantes-la-Jolie 2000.
- Jean-François Holvas, Véronique Icole, Antoinette Le Lièvre: Mantes-sur-Seine, une histoire d'eau du Moyen Âge à nos jours , Mantes-la-Jolie 2005.
- Véronique Icole: Homage to Pierre Goujon , Mantes-la-Jolie 2003.
- Marcel Lachiver: Histoire de Mantes et du Mantois à travers chroniques et mémoires des origines à 1792 , Meulan-en-Yvelines 1971.
- E. Saintier: Les fortifications de Mantes depuis l'origine jusqu'au XVIe siècle , Montligeon 1925.
