Nancy
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- 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]]
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Nancy" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
