Mans
LE (mong), a picturesque city of France, the capital formerly of the province of Maine, and now of the department of Sarthe, on the left bank of the Sarthe, 116 miles S. W. of Paris.
Pop. about 70,000. The Cenomanum of the Romans, and the birthplace of Henry II. of England, Le Mans witnessed in 1793 the dispersion and massacre of more than 10,000 Vendéans; and in January, 1871, the defeat, after a stubborn resistance, of 100,000 Frenchmen under Chanzy by Prince Frederick-Charles.