Mans, Le, capital of French department of Sarthe, on the river Sarthe, 170 m. SW. of Paris; has a magnificent cathedral; is an important railway centre, and has textile and hosiery factories. It was the scene of a great French defeat in January 1871.
Population (circa 1900) given as 53,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Manning, Henry Edward * Mansard