Nancy (pronounced inside French) is a city & commune which is the préfecture (capital) of the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, in the Lorraine région of northeastern France. A area (aire urbaine) of Nancy had a people of 410,508 habitant at the 1999 census, 103,605 of whom lived in the city of Nancy proper (105,100 dweller in the city proper when of 2004 estimates).

Historically, Nancy was a capital of the duchy of Lorraine and later a French province of Lorraine. Whilst a région of Lorraine was created in the middle of the 20th century, Metz was chosen as its capital instead of Nancy.

Geography

A neighboring communes of Nancy come: Jarville-la-Malgrange, Laxou, Malzéville, Maxéville, Saint-Max, Tomblaine, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, Villers-lès-Nancy.

Sights

A Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière, & Place 500'Alliance were added on the World Heritage Sites list by the UNESCO in 1983.

"L'École de Nancy", the art nouveau style was created by artists at a prevent of the 19° century. A City however possess very much of buildings from either this time period (Banks, buck private houses..).

A old city center is an heritage from either a middle-age period of time until a 18° century.

Culture

At a turn of the 20th century, Nancy was a major center of the Art Nouveau style.

Transport

Nancy is served by the 'tramway on tyres', within actual fact the guided busway based on Bombardier Transportation's Guided Light Transit technology. It has suffered numerous incidents & malfunctions, however at present works while forgoing important problems. This formulas is likewise utilized within Caen, and is built in the city of Nijmegen.

Miscellaneous

A N ray, which turned out to become the figment of local physicist René-Prosper Blondlot's imagination, was named for Nancy.

Nancy's archaic German name is Nanzig, although that name potty however exist as incurred in the Luxembourgish adaptation Nantzeg.

Colleges and Universities

Université Henri Poincaré (Nancy 1) [http://www.uhp-nancy.fr] Université de Nancy 2 [http://www.univ-nancy2.fr] Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine École des Beaux-Arts de Nancy École nationale supérieure des Mines de Nancy École Supérieure des Sciences et Technologies de l'Ingénieur de Nancy ou ESSTIN École Supérieure d'Informatique et Applications de Lorraine ou ESIAL Institut commercial de Nancy (ICN Nancy)

Births

Nancy was a 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 late 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 a artificer of musique concrète François Jacob (b. 1920), biologist Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955), composer

Twins towns

Newcastle upon Tyne (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, Ohio (United States), since 1991