Nancy

48°42N 6°12E, pop (2000e) 104 000. Manufacturing city and capital of Meurthe-et-Moselle department, NE France; on R Meurthe and MarneRhine Canal, 285 km/177 mi E of Paris; former capital of Lorraine; part of France, 1766; road and rail junction; episcopal see; university (1572); iron and steel, boilers, catering equipment, glass, footwear, tobacco, yeast, brewing; 17th-c town hall, 13th-c ducal palace, 15th-c Eglise des Cordeliers, 14th-c Porte de la Craffe, cathedral (170342); noted for its 18th-c Baroque architecture: Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière, and Place d'Alliance comprise a world heritage site.

Commune of Nancy

Place Stanislas - Fountain of Amphitrite

Location

Coordinates

48°41′36″N, 06°11′04″E

Administration

Country

France

Région

Lorraine

Département

Meurthe-et-Moselle
(préfecture)

Arrondissement

Nancy

Canton

Chief town of 4 cantons

Intercommunality

Communauté urbaine
du Grand Nancy

Mayor

André Rossinot
(2001-2008)

Statistics

Altitude

188 m–353 m
(avg. 212 m)

Land area¹

15.01 km²

Population²
(1999)

103,605

- Density (1999)

6,902/km²

Miscellaneous

INSEE/Postal code

54395/ 54000

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers >

Universities and colleges

Université Henri Poincaré (Nancy 1) Université de Nancy 2 Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine École des Beaux-Arts de Nancy École nationale supérieure des industries chimiques (ENSIC) École nationale supérieure d'électricité et de mécanique (ENSEM) École nationale supérieure des Mines de Nancy École Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies de l'Ingénieur de Nancy or ESSTIN École Supérieure d'Informatique et Applications de Lorraine or ESIAL Institut commercial de Nancy (ICN Nancy) 1er cycle franco-allemand de Sciences Po Paris

Births

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 Joseph Ducreux (1735-1802), portrait painter, pastelist, miniaturist, and engraver Antoine Drouot (1774-1847), one of Napoleon's generals Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896), author, critic, publisher, founder of the Académie Goncourt Lucien Febvre (1878-1956), historian 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. 1955), composer

Hometown of These Fictional Character

René François Artois ('Allo 'Allo) René Artois ('Alllo 'Allo [Twin brother of René François Artois])

Twinned towns

Newcastle, England (since 1954) Liège, Belgium (since 1954) Karlsruhe, Germany (since 1955) Padua, Italy (since 1964) Kanazawa, Japan (since 1973) Qiryat Shemona, Israel (since 1984) Lublin, Poland (since 1988) Cincinnati, United States (since 1991)

Art Nouveau-Related External Links

Official website of le Musée de l'Ecole de Nancy (the museum of the Nancy style of Art Nouveau (in French) Nancy tourism office page on the "School of Nancy" Museum (in English) A walking tour of Nancy's Art Nouveau architecture including photos ((in French)

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Overseas départements:
Cayenne (French Guiana) • Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) • Fort-de-France (Martinique) • Saint-Denis (Réunion)

World Heritage Sites in France

Abbey Church of Saint-Savin sur Gartempe |

Nancy

Universities and colleges

Births

Hometown of These Fictional Character

Twinned towns

Art Nouveau-Related External Links

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