Mantes la Ville

Mantes-la-Ville is a commune in the Yvelines division in the Ile-de-France locale in north-focal France. Initially inherent the twelfth century, the present church of Saint-Etienne goes back to the sixteenth century. From the structure of takeoff, one can by the by still appreciate the nave and a few components of the apse. It uncovers a run of the mill design of the locale and the period, including a Romanesque support vault and the rib-vaulting of the choir that takes the stand concerning the Gothic premises. Reestablished commonly, the congregation is the most established landmark of Mantes-la-Ville.

Mantes-la-Ville is the central station of two incredibly famous creators of wind instruments: Buffet Crampon and Selmer. Eduard Beaugnier, another saxophone maker, was likewise situated in Mantes until the organization shut down in the mid 1970s. Beaugnier fabricated saxophones under their own name, and furthermore as "stencils" for different organizations under names, for example, Noblet, Vito and Revere. Despite the fact that not too known as the instruments of Henri Selmer, Beaugnier instruments have a decent notoriety among saxophone aficionados.