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Mantes-la-Jolie (, often informally called Mantes) is a commune in the
Yvelines Yvelines () is a department in the western part of the ﾃ四e-de-France region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a population of 1,448,207.department in the
ﾃ四e-de-France The ﾃ四e-de-France (; ; ) is the most populous of the eighteen regions of France, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 residents on 1 January 2023. Centered on the capital Paris, it is located in the north-central part of the cou ...
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of north-central
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. It is located to the west of
Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...
, from the centre of the capital. Mantes-la-Jolie is a
subprefecture A subprefecture is an administrative division of a country that is below prefecture or province. Albania There are twelve Counties of Albania, Albanian counties or prefectures, each of which is divided into several Districts of Albania, district ...
of Yvelines.


History

Mantes was halfway between the centres of power of the dukes of
Normandy Normandy (; or ) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ...
at
Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine, in northwestern France. It is in the prefecture of Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one ...
and the
Kings of France France was ruled by monarchs from the establishment of the kingdom of West Francia in 843 until the end of the Second French Empire in 1870, with several interruptions. Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I, king of the Fra ...
in Paris. Along with most of northern France, the city changed hands frequently in the
Hundred Years' War The Hundred Years' War (; 1337窶1453) was a conflict between the kingdoms of Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of France, France and a civil war in France during the Late Middle Ages. It emerged from feudal disputes over the Duchy ...
.
Philip Augustus Philip II (21 August 1165 窶 14 July 1223), also known as Philip Augustus (), was King of France from 1180 to 1223. His predecessors had been known as kings of the Franks (Latin: ''rex Francorum''), but from 1190 onward, Philip became the firs ...
died in Mantes on 14 July 1223.
Louis XIV LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonnﾃｩ; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the List of longest-reign ...
instituted the manufacture of musical instruments in Mantes, and it was chosen as the centre of
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and
woodwind Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments. Common examples include flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, and saxophone. There are two main types of woodwind instruments: flutes and Ree ...
instrument manufacture. In the 19th century, painters were attracted to the town, particularly
Corot CoRoT (French: ; English: Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) was a space telescope mission which operated from 2006 to 2013. The mission's two objectives were to search for extrasolar planets with short orbital periods, particularly t ...
, whose paintings of the bridge and the cathedral are celebrated.
Prokofiev Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''. , group=n ( 窶 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who l ...
spent the summer of 1920 there orchestrating the ballet ''
Chout ''Chout'', Op. 21, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev. It was originally composed in 1915, then extensively revised at the request of Serge Diaghilev in 1921. The composer extracted an orchestral suite from it, Op. 21 bis. The ballet's full title i ...
''. Originally officially called Mantes-sur-Seine (meaning "Mantes on the
Seine The Seine ( , ) is a river in northern France. Its drainage basin is in the Paris Basin (a geological relative lowland) covering most of northern France. It rises at Source-Seine, northwest of Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plat ...
"), Mantes merged with the commune of Gassicourt in 1930 and the commune born of the merger was called Mantes-Gassicourt. Mantes was the location of the
first allied bridgehead across the Seine General George Patton, General George Patton's United States Army Central, Third Army's Seine River Crossing at Mantes-Gassicourt was the first allied bridgehead across the Seine River in the aftermath of Operation Overlord, which allowed the All ...
on 19 August 1944, by
General Patton George Smith Patton Jr. (11 November 1885 窶 21 December 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, then the Third Army in France and Germany after the Alli ...
's 3rd Army. Major rebuilding was needed after the war. On 7 May 1953, the commune of Mantes-Gassicourt was officially renamed Mantes-la-Jolie (meaning "Mantes the pretty"), allegedly in reference to a letter of King Henry IV addressed to his
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Gabrielle d'Estrﾃｩes Gabrielle d'Estrﾃｩes, Duchess of Beaufort and Verneuil, Marchioness of Monceaux (; 157310 April 1599) was a mistress, confidante and adviser of Henry IV of France. She is noted for her role in ending the religious civil wars that plagued France ...
who resided in Mantes: "I am on my way to Mantes, my pretty" ().


Art

At the end of the 19th century, Impressionist painters like
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; ; 25 February 1841 窶 3 December 1919) was a French people, French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, fe ...
,
ﾃ嬰ouard Manet ﾃ嬰ouard Manet (, ; ; 23 January 1832 窶 30 April 1883) was a French Modernism, modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism (art movement), R ...
and
Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 窶 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his ...
came to paint the Seine River which crosses the town. Jean Batiste Corot painting of the Old Mantes bridge is shown at the Louvres.


Population

Inhabitants are called ''Mantais'' in French. The city had a total of 44,299 inhabitants in 2017. The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Mantes-la-Jolie proper, in its geography at the given years. The commune of Mantes-la-Jolie absorbed the former communes of Gassicourt in 1930. Mantes-la-Jolie has a significant Muslim population, consisting mainly of North Africans,
Arabs Arabs (,  , ; , , ) are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa. A significant Arab diaspora is present in various parts of the world. Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of yea ...
,
Turks Turk or Turks may refer to: Communities and ethnic groups * Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation * Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic of Turkey * Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic lang ...
, and Sub-Saharan Africans. Many Muslims in Mantes-la-Jolie experience disillusionment, high levels of poverty and unemployment. Val Fourrﾃｩ is a low-income housing estate occupied almost entirely by Arabs and African migrants. Over one-in-three residents in the town is an immigrant, and 27% of the town does not have French citizenship as of 2019. The city is divided into four districts each with a characteristic urban form: * Centre-ville: city center, a dense and commercial area * Gassicourt: residential area * Val Fourrﾃｩ: large housing district * Hautes Garennes: a non-urbanized area


Sights

The main monument in Mantes is the church of Notre-Dame dating back to 12th century. A previous church was burnt down by
William the Conqueror William the Conqueror (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33窶 9 September 1087), sometimes called William the Bastard, was the first Norman king of England (as William I), reigning from 1066 until his death. A descendant of Rollo, he was D ...
together with the rest of the town, at the capture of which he lost his life in 1087. Modern bridges link Mantes with the town of
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on the other side of the river.


Economy

Mantes is home to small businesses working on concrete and chemical processing, but is inevitably drawn into the economic area of nearby Paris. It is historically and at present a center of musical instrument manufacturing. The well known
Buffet Crampon Buffet Crampon SAS is a French manufacturer of wind instruments based in Mantes-la-Ville, in the Yvelines department. The company is the world market leader in the production of Boehm system clarinets. Its subsidiary, Buffet Crampon Deuts ...
woodwind factory is located in the neighbourhood city of
Mantes-la-Ville Mantes-la-Ville () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the ﾃ四e-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris from the center. Mantes-la-Ville is located at the confluence of the Seine and th ...
.


Transportation

Mantes-la-Jolie is served by two stations on the
Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare Transilien Paris-Saint-Lazare is one of the sectors in the Paris Transilien suburban rail network. The trains on this sector depart from Gare Saint-Lazare in central Paris and serve the north and north-west of ﾃ四e-de-France region with Transilien ...
and
Transilien Paris-Montparnasse Transilien Line N is a railway line of the Paris Transilien suburban rail network operated by the SNCF. The trains on this line travel between Gare Montparnasse in Paris and the west of ﾃ四e-de-France region, with termini in Rambouillet, Dreux ...
suburban rail lines: and . The Mantes-la-Jolie station is also served by
TGV The TGV (; , , 'high-speed train') is France's intercity high-speed rail service. With commercial operating speeds of up to on the newer lines, the TGV was conceived at the same period as other technological projects such as the Ariane 1 rocke ...
trains towards Le Havre, and Cherbourg.


Education

The municipality has nineteen public preschools, sixteen public elementary schools, six public junior high schools, two public senior high schools/sixth form colleges, and a private secondary school. Public junior high schools: *Collﾃｨge
Andrﾃｩ Chﾃｩnier Andrﾃｩ Marie Chﾃｩnier (; 30 October 176225 July 1794) was a French poet associated with the events of the French Revolution, during which he was sentenced to death. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic ...
*Collﾃｨge
Paul Cﾃｩzanne Paul Cﾃｩzanne ( , , ; ; ; 19 January 1839 窶 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century a ...
*Collﾃｨge
Jules Ferry Jules Franﾃｧois Camille Ferry (; 5 April 183217 March 1893) was a French statesman and republican philosopher. He was one of the leaders of the Opportunist Republicans, Moderate Republicans and served as Prime Minister of France from 1880 to 18 ...
*Collﾃｨge
Louis Pasteur Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 窶 28 September 1895) was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, Fermentation, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the la ...
*Collﾃｨge de Gassicourt *Collﾃｨge
Georges Clemenceau Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (28 September 1841 窶 24 November 1929) was a French statesman who was Prime Minister of France from 1906 to 1909 and again from 1917 until 1920. A physician turned journalist, he played a central role in the poli ...
Public senior high schools: * Lycﾃｩe Saint-Exupﾃｩry * Lycﾃｩe Polyvalent Jean Rostand Private secondary schools: * Collﾃｨge-Lycﾃｩe Notre-Dame Colleges and universities: * University Institute of Technology of Mantes en Yvelines *
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (, ; UVSQ), also known as Paris-Saclay University (), is a French public university created in 1991, located in the Departments of France, department of Yvelines and, since 2002, in Hauts-de-Sein ...


International relations

Mantes-la-Jolie is twinned with: *
Hillingdon Hillingdon is an area of Uxbridge within the London Borough of Hillingdon, centred 14.2 miles (22.8 km) west of Charing Cross. It was an ancient parish in Middlesex that included the market town of Uxbridge. During the 1920s the civil pari ...
, England, United Kingdom *
Maia Maia (; Ancient Greek: ﾎ慚ｱ眩茂ｱ; also spelled Maie, ; ), in ancient Greek religion and mythology, is one of the Pleiades and the mother of Hermes, one of the major Greek gods, by Zeus, the king of Olympus. Family Maia is the daughter of A ...
, Portugal *
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, Germany


Notable people

*
Nicolas Bernier Nicolas Bernier (28 June 1664 – 5 September 1734) was a French Baroque composer. Biography He was born in Mantes-sur-Seine (now Mantes-la-Jolie), the son of Rﾃｩmy Bernier and Marguerite Bauly. He studied with Antonio Caldara and is know ...
(1664窶1734), composer * Jonathan Bumbu (b. 1999), footballer * Sandy Casar (born 1979), cyclist *
Faudel Faudel Belloua (; born June 6, 1978) is a French raﾃｯ singer and actor of Algerian descent. He released studio albums, notably '' Baﾃｯda'', '' Samra'', ''Un Autre Soleil'' and ''Mundial Corrida'' and the live album '' 1,2,3 Soleils'' jointly w ...
(born 1978), singer *
Audrey Fleurot Audrey Fleurot (; born 6 July 1977) is a French actress. She is best known for playing the Lady of the Lake in ''Kaamelott'', Josﾃｩphine Karlsson in ''Spiral (TV series), Spiral'' and Hortense Larcher in ''Un village franﾃｧais''. In 2011, she ...
(*1977), actress *
Saﾃｯd Hireche Saﾃｯd Hireche (born 27 May 1985) is a French-Algerian rugby union player who currently plays for CA Brive Club Athlﾃｩtique Brive Corrﾃｨze Limousin, also referred to as CA Brive, Brive () or CAB, is a French professional rugby union club base ...
(1985), rugby player * Haoua Kessely (*1988), athlete * Omar Kossoko (*1988), footballer * Enock Kwateng (b. 1997), footballer *
Michel Leclﾃｨre Michel Leclﾃｨre (born 18 March 1946) is a former motor racing driver from France. He competed in eight Formula One Grands Prix, making his debut on October 5, 1975. However, he did not score any championship points during his career in Formula One ...
(*1946), racing driver *
Kama Massampu Francis Kama Massampu (born 26 December 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays for FC Mantes as a forward. Club career He began his career with US Boulogne playing on the club's under-17 team. In 2009, Massampu joined Championnat ...
(*1991), footballer * Claudine Mendy (*1990), handball player * Oumar N'Diaye (*1985), footballer * Opa Nguette (*1994), footballer * Haby Niare (*1993), taekwondo *
Nicolas Pﾃｩpﾃｩ Nicolas Pﾃｩpﾃｩ (born 29 May 1995) is a professional association football, footballer who plays as a winger (association football), right winger or forward (association football), forward for La Liga club Villarreal CF, Villarreal. Born in France ...
(*1995), footballer * Benoit Poher (1979), singer *
Moussa Sow Moussa Sow (born 19 January 1986) is a former professional association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward. Born in France, he represented Senegal national football team, Senegal at international level, s ...
(*1986), footballer * Hamady Tamboura (*1989), footballer *
Jules Tannery Jules Tannery (24 March 1848 窶 11 December 1910) was a French mathematician, who notably studied under Charles Hermite and was the PhD advisor of Jacques Hadamard. Tannery's theorem on interchange of limits and series is named after him. H ...
(1848窶1910), mathematician *
Angelo Tsagarakis Angelo Constantin Tsagarakis (Greek: ﾎﾎｳﾎｳﾎｵﾎｻﾎｿﾏ ﾎ､ﾏπｱﾎｳﾎｺﾎｱﾏ∃ｬﾎｺﾎｷﾏ; born June 3, 1984) is a retired French-Greek professional basketball player who played both point guard and shooting guard. Tsagarakis played college basketball at Oregon ...
(born 1984), basketball player


See also

*
Communes of the Yvelines department A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comunﾄ or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes o ...


References


External links


Mantes-la-Jolie city council website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Manteslajolie Communes of Yvelines Subprefectures in France