Nancy
- This article is about the city in France named Nancy. There is also Nancy, Kentucky and Nancy (comic strip).
Nancy is a city, préfecture (capital) of the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, in Lorraine in north-eastern France. It has a population of approximately 102,000 (330,000 with suburbs).
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.
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
Nancy was the birthplace of:
- Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1565-1637)
- Louis Maimbourg (1610-1686), Jesuit and historian
- 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
- René-Prosper Blondlot (1849-1930), physicist
- Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), theoretical scientist
- 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
The N ray, which turned out to be a figment of Blondlot's imagination, was named for Nancy.
Nancy is twinned with Karlsruhe, Germany.
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