Nancy
- This article is about the city in France named Nancy. There is also Nancy, Kentucky and Nancy (comic strip).
Nancy (formerly known as Nanzig in German) is a city and commune, préfecture (capital) of the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, in Lorraine in north-eastern France. Population (1999): 103,605 (330,000 with suburbs).
Geography The neighboring communes of Nancy are: Jarville-la-Malgrange, Laxou, Malzéville, Maxéville, Saint-Max, Tomblaine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy,
Villers-lès-Nancy.
Sights The Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière, and Place d'Alliance were added on the World Heritage Sites list by the UNESCO in 1983. Nancy's authentic German name is "Nanzig", although it is now out of use. That name can still be found in the Luxemburgish adaptation "Nantzeg".
Culture At the turn of the 20th century, Nancy was a major center of the Art Nouveau style.
Transportation The municipality has installed Trogui : a network of trolleybus using a guidance rail. It has suffered many incidents and malfunctions.
Miscellaneous The N ray, which turned out to be a figment of Blondlot's imagination, was named for Nancy.
Colleges and Universities Nancy was the birthplace of: Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1565-1637) Jacques Callot (c.1592-1635), baroque graphics artist, draftsman and printmaker Louis Maimbourg (1610-1686), Jesuit and historian Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (1708-1765), duke of Lorraine and later [[Holy Roman Emperor Jean François de Saint-Lambert (1716-1803), poet Antoine Drouot (1774-1847), one of Napoleon's generals Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896), author, critic, publisher, founder of the Académie Goncourt Marie Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville (1827-1910), historian and philologist Émile Gallé (1846-1904), Art Nouveau artist René-Prosper Blondlot (1849-1930), physicist, best remembered for his mistaken identification of N rays Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), mathematician, theoretical scientist and philosopher of science Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (1854-1934), marshal of France Henri Cartan (b. 1904), mathematician Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995), noted as the inventor of musique concrète François Jacob (b. 1920), biologist Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955), composer
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