Nancy (original) (raw)

This article is about the city in France named Nancy. There is also Nancy, Kentucky and Nancy (comic strip).

Nancy is a city, pr�fecture (capital) of the Meurthe-et-Moselle d�partement, in Lorraine in north-eastern France. It has a population of approximately 102,000.

The Place Stanislas, Place de la Carri�re, and Place d'Alliance were added on the World Heritage Sites list by the UNESCO in 1983.

The municipality has installed a network of optically guided trolleybus called the Trogui which is probably the worst in the world as it's prone to accident and malfunction.

Nancy was the birthplace of:

• Antoine Drouot (1774-1847), one of Napoleon's generals
• Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896), author, critic, publisher, founder of the Acad�mie Goncourt
• Pierre Schaeffer (1910-1995), noted as the inventor of musique concrete

The N ray, which turned out to be a figment of Blondlot's imagination, was named for Nancy.

Colleges and Universities

• �cole nationale des beaux-arts de Nancy
• Ecole Nationale Sup�rieure des Mines de Nancy