Nancy is a French city of the area Lorraine, prefecture of the department of the Meurthe-et-Moselle. Its inhabitants is called the Nancéiens ( Nancéiennes ). One meets sometimes the alternative Nancéens .

Geography

Nancy is located in the North-East of the France, between several hills forming of the small timbered plates, in a half-basin without opening to the west towards Paris. This basin is crossed by various rivers which do not occupy a central position in the city since the Meurthe mark the border is commune. This river is not arranged for the river transport and only the Canal of the Marne in the Rhine (with the Gabarit Freycinet) which is parallel for him on thirty kilometers allows a river traffic of small tonnage. The Nancy rivers tend today to become again of the gravitational elements to which the city (e.g. turns: water garden drawn by Alexandre Chemetoff).

Nancy had a poor geographical defensive value because of its situation in “basin”. Frouard (which had a castle besides), with its position at the point of junction, or Saint-Nicolas-of-Port for example, would undoubtedly have been of the strategic geographical choices for place-strong; but during the creation of the city, the site of Nancy was a plain in the middle of the Duché of Lorraine allowing a not very constraining urban development for a capital.

Localities and variations

Beauregard, Boudonville, Buthégnemont, Haussonville, High-of-Hare, Saint Nicolas's Daies, Midsummer's Day, Saurupt, Three-Houses all are of the localities and old suburbs out-the-walls integrated into the city progressively of its growth and its history. The city develops from now on in the East, in the district known as of Banks of Meurthe, between Meurthe and the channel of the Marne in the Rhine.

Communes bordering

The communes bordering on the town of Nancy are gathered in Urban community of Large Nancy, which counts close to: 270.000 inhabitants of the first crown nancéienne.

Eight cities have a common limit with Nancy. With: 35000 inhabitants, Vandœuvre-the-Nancy is the second most populated commune Meurthe-et-Moselle and thus the second pole of the agglomeration. Come then Laxou (: 15898 inhabitants) and Villers-the-Nancy (: 15700 inhabitants), then Saint-max, Malzéville, Maxéville, Tomblaine and Jarville-la-Malgrange.

The continuous agglomeration and densément being densément populated, the communes of the Urban community of Large Nancy are regarded as forming quasi-integral part of the city; communes considered as remote suburbs being generally those not having integrated the Urban community. With: 331000 inhabitants, the urban Unité of Nancy is the first of Lorraine and 15th of France. The urban surface of Nancy, more extended, account: 411000 inhabitants.

History

Nancy is the old capital of the Duché of Lorraine.

Although many prehistoric sites were discovered on the plates surrounding the city, the historic site of the city does not seem to have been really occupied before the time mérovingienne, towards the end of the 7th century. One mentions just the existence of a ford on Meurthe at the 8th century.

Etymology

The known oldest shape of Nancy is the romanized form of its name Celtique ( Nant ). In the Gallic Antiquity then Roman, Nancy is thus named: Nanceiacum (896).

Another hard copy dated April 29th 1073 (mention in the charter of Pibon, bishop of Toul: “Olry, dedicated of Nancy” (“ Odelrici advocati of Nanceio ”).

Birth of a city

Birth of Nancy east in fact related to the construction of a feudal castle, during the 11th century, by Gerard of Alsace which founds there a small city which will become the capital of the Duché of Lorraine under its successors at the 11th century. In 1218, during the War of succession of Champagne, under the reign of the duke Thiébaud {{Ier}}, the city is completely set fire to by the emperor Frederic {{II}} of Hohenstaufen. The city will be rebuilt and increased and protected by a new castle.

The Middle Ages

It is at the time of the Bataille of Nancy, which was preceded by a seat, that Charles Bold the, duke of Burgundy, dies in January 1477 vis-a-vis the duke Rene {{II}} with the Midsummer's Day pond. Rene {{II}} is also regarded as the first duke builder: he makes rebuild his Ducal Palais and makes set up at side the church of Cordeliers as well as a place of worship in Notre-Dame de Bonsecours (also let us note the construction of a blazing Gothic basilica with Saint-Nicolas-of-Port, from where the duke left to start the reconquest of his capital). Hieronimo Citoni created the new city of Nancy in 1596.

Modern period

Under the reigns of the dukes Charles {{III}} and Léopold, the city profits from many extensions (new city, Léopold course…) and of a cultural radiation without precedent. Drawn aside from the throne of Poland, Stanislas Leszczyński, king of Poland and father-in-law of Louis {{XV}} because married to Marie Leszczyńska, receives the duchy of Lorraine, with life annuity, in 1737 and controls it as a lit monarch, leading it to its apogee, in full century of the lights. It creates in the honor of king de France a place of beautiful proportions which will receive its name later. To its death in 1766, the duchy returns to the crown of France.

Nancy is the seat of one évêché since 1778 corresponding to the transfer of that of Toul. The city also has a Court of Appeal.

In August 1790, the city was the object of a military revolt repressed severely by the troops of the marquis de Bouillé: the regiment of the hussards of Lauzun charged in the streets with the city. This event, known under the name " of business of Nancy" , was the principal episode of the revolutionary period in Nancy.

In 1871, the city remains French while the Alsace and the the Moselle, with Strasbourg and Metz, are attached to the Germany by the Traité of Frankfurt. Nancy then knows a boom and a new cultural golden age. Indeed, of many Choosing S (Alsatian and Natives of the Moselle region refusing German nationality) chooses to settle there, among which a great number of intellectuals and industrialists. Nancy then becomes the main city of the east of France and its population increases in a considerable way passing of 50.000 inhabitants in 1870 to 120.000 in 1914.

Town of Iron and steel industry since the Years 1880, Nancy was also dreamed coal downtown with the any end of the 19th century. The project, due to the impulse of ironmaster (Riding, De Lespinats, De Saintignon, Unpleasant…), of mining engineers, of local bankers and business men, will remain however uncompleted.

Around 1900, it is of Nancy that share, in France, the movement of the Art nouveau with in particular the École of Nancy whose leaders are Emile Galle, Antonin Daum, Louis Majorelle, Victor Prouvé and Eugene Vallin.

During the First World War, the city was threatened at the time of the Bataille of Large Crowned. It then underwent bombardments by planes and zeppelins and also the shootings of the “Large max”: a battery of 380 mm models SKL/45 installed 35 away km, in the village of Hampont in the Moselle annexed. These bombardments made large property damages and caused the death of 177 people.

At the time of the Second world war, the Libération of Nancy of the German occupation was carried out by the third American army during the countryside of Lorraine in September 1944.

Famous people born in Nancy

Majority of the dukes of Lorraine whose François {{III}} of Lorraine (1708 - 1765), which will become Empereur of the Romans under the name of François 1st, was born in Nancy. This one will give rise to the family of Habsbourg-Lorraine. Just like Antoine Drouot (1774 - 1847), general of Napoleon, called “the Wise one of the Large army”, or the marshal Lyautey (1854 - 1934). Léopold Sigisbert Hugo (1773-1828) general of Empire and father of Victor Hugo. One can also quote Virginia Mauvais (1797 - 1892), teacher, officer of the State education, known as senior of the State education.

The city also saw being born a certain number of artistic personalities:

  • Among the most known scientists, the mathematicians Henri Cartan (1904 -) and Henri Poincaré (1854 - 1912) and the biologist François Jacob (born in 1920), Nobel Prize of medicine in 1965, are key figures. One can also quote Rene Blondlot (1849 - 1930), the author of one of the greatest errors of the 20th century in experimental physics with the Rayons NR, but which completed other famous scientific work.

The general engineer of the Marine engineering Louis, Emile Bertin (1840-1924) commander of the Legion of Honor, the creator of the military marine of Japan at the time of Meiji and the maritime arsenals of Kure and Sasebo, member of the Institute, scientist of universal fame, inventor of the box Bertin (cellular section on the ships), of the sleeve with air, creator of the basin of the hulls Victor boulevard in Paris (1st in the world, in 1906), member of (1903) then President (1922), the Academy Academy of Science of navy (1921). Principal of the Marine engineering then central director of French naval constructions, that which thus leads France since 1898 to the prestigious classification of the second world navy (400 000 tons) behind Great Britain (600 000 tons). Cofounder with Emile Guimet, in 1900, of Company free-Japanese woman of Paris, etc Recognition of the nation: the cruiser Emile Bertin. It built in France and in Japan approximately 150 buildings of surface. Author of more than fifty scientific and technical works.
  • In the field of the policy, one can quote Francois Chereque, general secretary of the CFDT since 2002 and born in Nancy in 1956.

Other personalities related to Nancy

Heraldic

The town of Nancy carries like armorial bearings: “money to the stem of thistle torn off from sinople, flowered of crimson, charged with two prickly sheets to the naturalness; with the chief cut of one and party of three: with the fascé first of money and mouths of eight parts, with the second of sown azure of flowers of gold lily broken as a chief of a lambel of mouths, with the money third to gold the potencée cross confined of four small crosses of same, to the gold fourth with four stakes of mouths, to the fifth of sown azure of flowers of gold lily to the bent edge of mouths, the sixth of azure to the gold lion circumvented to the tail fourchue, armed, lampassé and crowned mouths, with the gold seventh to the sand lion armed and lampassé of mouths, to the eighth of sown azure of small crosses recroisetées with the foot card-indexed of gold to the two bars leant of same stitching on the whole, on the gold whole to the band of mouths charged with three let us alérions of money ”.

The Thistle, as well as the currency which refers to it, “ not inultus premor ” (literally “one does not touch me with impunity”, and less literally “who rubs there pricks there”), is an allusion to the defeat of Charles Bold the with the Bataille of Nancy in 1477.

The chief represents the armorial bearings of the dukes of Lorraine starting from 1538. One finds from left to right there and from top to bottom, the weapons of the kingdoms of Hungary, of Naples, Jerusalem and Aragon, and the duchies of Anjou, Gueldre, Juliers and Bar. In the center the blazon of Lorraine was affixed.

Demography and statistics

The city, small and densément populated (1  501 ha, 6  902 inhabitants with the km ²), for a long time developed in continuous agglomeration with the common neighbors, the center which cannot more develop more.

  • Common of Nancy: : 110000 inhabitants in 2007.

  • the Nancéienne agglomeration: : 370000 inhabitants.
  • Common of the urban community of the Large Nancy (twenty communes: 270000 inhabitants).
The communes of the CUGN are regarded as forming quasi-integral part of the city; communes considered as remote suburbs being generally those not having integrated the urban community. To note that the urban unit of Nancy is the first of Lorraine, and that the urban surface of Nancy counts: 420000 inhabitants (source INSEE).

Nancy is Strasbourg, the 2nd metropolis of Large Is French (Alsace, Lorraine, Franche-Comté, Burgundy, Champagne) and--> the 5th university town French in term of density coed.

The commune of Nancy is regarded as the first urban Unité of Lorraine and the 13th French metropolis; however the definition of a large Lorraine metropolis along the Lorrain furrow is considered more and more, thus determining the first metropolis of large-Is French with more than one million inhabitants divided of Nancy with Thionville via Metz.

After 1962, the population of the commune declines quickly, but it is more one phenomenon of urban spreading out which a true decline. Because in parallel, the population of the agglomeration does not cease increasing, passing from: 270000 inhabitants in 1962 with: 330000 in 1999. The development of the car and the rise in the standard of living of the inhabitants, who seek a vaster habitat, explain this devolution partly. Since ten years, the city endeavors to impel a program of housing on rare spaces available, which explains the light demographic recovery.

In 1999, Nancy was regarded by INSEE as centers natural:

With more: 20000 companies, the economic fabric is primarily composed of SME - SME without one being able to really speak about industrial sector dominating. It thus was relatively preserved crises of the textile, mining industry and iron and steel industry which successively touched the area.

The Zone of employment gathers a total of: 168000 employment (the most important zone of use of Lorraine) and posts a percentage of stable jobs among highest by allowing 88% credits resident to find their employment on the spot.

With: 13000 higher metropolitan employment, Nancy is classified with the 14th rank of the French urban surfaces. It appears positioned particularly well on the fields of information, research and telecommunications.

Administration

Cantons

Mayors of Nancy

Mayors of the 20th century:

  • Hippolyte Maringer of May 15th 1892 at May 15th 1904
  • Ludovic Beauchet of July 7th 1904 at May 1912
  • Joseph Laurent of May 19th 1912 at August 23rd 1914
  • Gustave Simon of August 23rd 1914 at December 7th 1919
  • Henri Mengin of December 10th 1919 at May 1925
  • Emile Devit of May 17th 1925 at May 1929
  • Marie-Joseph Malval of May 19th 1929 at May 13rd 1933
  • Charles-Victor Christmas of June 18th at December 15th 1933
  • Camille Schmitt of December 1933 at September 1944
  • Jean Proven of September 15th 1944 at May 18th 1945
  • Pierre Donzelot of May 18th 1945 at March 14th 1946
  • Henry Sirguey of March 25th 1946 at October 19th 1947
  • Lionel Pilgrim of October 26th 1947 at May 10th 1953
  • Raymond Pinchard of May 10th 1953 at August 22nd 1961 (deceased)
  • Pierre Weber of September 9th 1961 with 1969 (resigner)
  • Andre Rosambert of January 8th 1970 at February 12th 1970
  • Marcel Martin of February 17th 1970 at March 1977
  • Claude Coulais of March 23rd 1977 at March 12th 1983
  • André Rossinot since March 12th 1983

Twinnings



decentralized Co-operation

Twinning with the city of the Pirée in Greece was abandoned due to stop of the common relations.

Economy

Nancy is the fifth money market of France (it has inter alia the “regional” seats of all the French banks). Recently, a House of Finance has just opened its doors in part of the building from Saint-Gobain WFP.

Nancy is also the seat of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Meurthe-et-Moselle which manages the port of Frouard as well as Regional court of trade and industry of Lorraine.

Nancy is the principal pole of health of North East of France with CHRU (University hospital) installed on the site of Brabois, the Central Hospital in the center of the city as well as regional maternity. The city as well as the agglomeration have many private clinics.

The city also shelters the daily newspaper " Is Republican " , which belongs to the group EBRA in the past " Group Is Républicain" who is the first press group daily regional Frenchwoman.

The technopolis of Nancy-Brabois located on the commune of Vandœuvre is one of most important country and one of the 3 first arranged with those of Sophia Antipolis (Nice) and Meylan (Grenoble).

In 2007

  • Nearly 300 companies employ there more: 15000 people;
  • a hundred laboratories shelter there: 2500 researchers;
  • Three universities (INPL, Nancy-I and Nancy-II) count on the site close to: 20000 students.

Tourism and inheritance

Nancy, classified Town of art and history, has vast a Secteur safeguarded of 150 hectares which correspond to the historical center of the city. Three places (Stanislas, of the career and of alliance ) are classified world heritage of UNESCO since 1983.

Civil inheritance

Relatively preserved by the centuries, the various districts always have an architecture and a characteristic environment as well as the surrounding suburbs.

Oldest constructions of the city, date from the Early middle ages. The Tour of Saint-Jean-of-Old-Aître Commanderie dating from the 12th century is the visible building oldest of the city.

City-old woman (12th century-16th century)

First built site of the city, one can contemplate still there some vestiges of the old fortifications which surrounded the medieval city, of which the Porte of the Intrusive vein dating from the 14th century. The palate Ducal is a building of the 16th century. With its portery, typical of the Gothic style blazing, it shelters the Lorraine historical museum today.

Being next to the palate, the church of Cordeliers contains the tombs of the dukes of Lorraine.

The city-old woman also preserves many buildings rebirth (Hôtel of Lillebonne, Hôtel of Haussonville…) like some traditional hotels (Hotel Ferraris, Hotel of the Wolves…).

It is necessary also to quote the Saint-Epvre place, in the center of the district that the basilica of the same name dominates.

Villeneuve (17th century)

The districts built under Charles constitute the new city of Nancy. At the request of the duke, the Italian Girolamo Citoni trace of the broad and right streets on a checkerboard plan in vogue at the time for the new cities, except the street Saint Nicolas's Day (old suburb) which keeps its preexistent layout. Fortifications (Saint Nicolas's Day carries, carries Saint-Georges and Midsummer's Day) protect this new city, which does not state that by one esplanade with the " old woman ville" with the irregular layout.

Rebuilding under Léopold

The duke Léopold undertakes the rebuilding of its capital after the destruction of the Guerre Thirty Year old. It begins construction from the Primatiale (future cathedral), and creates the " Léopold" course; in prolongation of the place of Strike; the long prospect, planted chestnut trees (to XIXe S.?), will be closed at the end of XVIIIe by the relates of Stainville to the road of Metz. In spite of the mixture of the architectural styles over three centuries, the course preserves its original ordinance today calms and majestic.

Many private mansions are built in the city, as well as civil buildings, in a style which tries to compare the new traditional designs to a Renaissance tradition.

Stanislas unit

Become duke of Lorraine, king Stanislas wants to modernize his capital: it with the brilliant idea to connect the medieval old city to the " city-neuve" of Charles III by a system of urban places, by marking the transition by a triumphal arch. This unit, consisted the Royal place (Place Stanislas) and the Place of the Career, articulated by the triumphal arch (Héré carries), combines with grace of the majestic buildings and famous gold the doors of the metal worker Jean Lamour. Town hall, palates of the Intendance (palate of the Government), private mansions of the nobility make the size of it; the Place of Alliance supplements this device by a public garden plus intimist. The Stanislas place gives also access to the park of the Seedbed created by Stanislas, of a surface of 23 ha in full downtown area, with its gardens with English.

This whole of the 18th century is classified with the world heritage UNESCO. After restoration, the Stanislas place celebrates his 250 years in 2005.

The city is also avoided the same time of many built private mansions, inter alia, by Germain Boffrand and its Lorraine pupil Emmanuel Héré, the architect of Stanislas.

Art nouveau (School of Nancy)

In the west of the city, the Saint-Leon district dates from the transition, it contains sumptuous residences of style Art nouveau the such Villa Majorelle (which occurred Foch and street Jeanne-with Arc…) that one also finds very widespread in the district of Saurupt, like in the Nancy-Thermal district (Sainte-Marie Park).

More generally the School of Nancy left many buildings civil in the historical center (Chamber of commerce, BNP, canopy of the Crédit Lyonnais) or deprived preserved (park of Saurupt, and distributed in all the city: workshops of Emile Galle and Eugene Vallin, Real France-Lanord, Bergeret house, Huot houses…).

High-of-hare

The High-of-Hare is as for him a district representative of the architecture of the post-war period. One can find in particular there what was the longest rectilinear building of France, conceived by the architect Bernard Zehrfuss.

At the end Is district draws up the panoramic tower which counts more than 30 stages and measurement more than 100 meters in height, it is highest real of Lorraine.

With hillside, under High-of-Hare, another witness of the architecture of the 20th century is, the house of the architect Jean Prouvé.

Nowadays

In the years 1960 to 1980, the town of Nancy carried out important urban renovations and sometimes very décriées. The Saint-Sebastien district was initially set up on old slums, it is composed of several turns of surroundings 15 on 20 floors and vast shopping mall.

But it is the district of the station which knew the most spectacular operation with construction in 1975 of the Tour Thiers which culminates to a hundred meters of altitude. This tower was the object of critical sharp because it is next to buildings dating from the time Art nouveau and that it stops the prospect towards the West since the Place Stanislas.

The districts Cross of Burgundy and Saint Leon in the West of the station are the last operations of town planning of great widths which took place in the hypercentre city.

Since the middle of the years 1990, the Urban community of Large Nancy engaged in vast and progressive rehabilitation of banks of Meurthe in the East of the city. Nearly 400 hectares are concerned in one of largest building sites than knew Nancy, the objectives are multiple, to exploit the little of place still available on the territory of the city, to extend the center town and to reconquer the banks of Meurthe put well off Nancy up to now.

The district of the Gare of Nancy is also engaged since 2005 in an operation of town planning of which the goal is to embellish this district, there to build office buildings as well as new a palate of the congress including the rehabilitation of old the postal sorting office, labelized inheritance of the .

Religious heritage

Évêché of the Diocèse of Nancy-Toul is located in the city, beside the cathedral. Among the religious buildings of the city one can quote:

The Middle Ages at the century of the lights

  • Tower of Saint-Jean-of-Old-Aître Commanderie: 11th century;
  • Church of Cordeliers (St-François) of the 15th century, with single nave broadside of enfeux of the Dukes, supplemented of a ducal vault baroque at the 17th century; the old convent shelters a museum of arts and traditions popular;
  • Church Saint-Sebastien: church-market of style Italian baroque of the 18th century;
  • Temple protesting Midsummer's Day, old church St-Joseph of prémontrés the (17th century-18th century);
  • Cathedral Notre-Dame: 18th century, rare cathedral of France built at the time traditional and introducing a rich person treasure (évangéliaire 10th century…) ;
  • Church Our-Lady-with-Bonsecours: 18th century, which shelters the tomb of Stanislas Leszczyński. It is also the parish of the Poles in Lorraine;
  • round Vault of the old convent of the Visitation 18th century, included in the College Henri-Poincaré
  • Synagog: built in 1787 and increased several times;

It should be noted that the French revolution saw the sale or destruction of many churches of the city.

Modern period

The city also has many other recent religious buildings, new parishes or churches replacing of the older buildings:
  • at the 19th century, the basilica Saint-Epvre, rich neo-gothic building of 86 bay-stained glass, frescos, and its carved furniture, which replaces a shot down Gothic church;
  • but also the Saint-Georges churches, Saint-Leon {{IX}}, Saint-Pierre, Saint Nicolas's Day, Saint-Vincent-and-Saint-Hackney carriage, Saint-Joseph, Saint-Mansuy;
  • at the 20th century, the basilica of the Sacred Heart which dates from the beginning of the 20th century, the basilica Our-Lady-of-Door, Saint-Vincent-of-Paul.
  • the Cemetery of Préville, kind of Nancy Father-Lachaise, which shelters the tombs of many Lorraine personalities.

Military inheritance

  • various doors of the city, vestiges of the various times of fortification:
    • Door of the Intrusive vein of and its during the Notre-Dame door.
    • Doors of the Citadel, Saint-Georges, Saint Nicolas's Daies all three built between and the century.
    • the basement of the museum of the Art schools presents a bastion in good state of conservation.
    • the doors Holy-Catherine and Stanislas built with.
    • the door Désille, last carries built, right before the revolution.
  • the old Arsenal of the Dukes of Lorraine in a pleasant Renaissance style.
  • Caserne Thiry builds of 1764 to 1769.
  • the Blandan barracks, concerned with the project Artem.

Files

Municipal files (including urban models) and secondary roads.

  • urban Models
  • Microfilms
  • parochial Registers and of civil statue since 1795
  • municipal Deliberations since:

Culture & Leisures

As a city of the Great Area, Nancy takes part in the program of the Européenne year of the Capitale of the Culture 2007 .

In 2006, Nancy was elected " the most pleasant city of France" by the magazine Nouvel Observateur.

Museums

Theaters

Demonstrations

  • Biennial international of the image

    • Topic 2006: seven deadly sins - fashion.
    • Topic 2008: the street
  • International festival of Choir singing (April-May).
  • MAY (Music action international), festival of experimental musics of Vandœuvre-the-Nancy, takes place in May.
  • the festival Passages (festival on the theaters of Eastern Europe and beyond) takes place in May, every two years.
  • the festival Traverses (festival on the university theaters of Eastern Europe) takes place in May. It is organized by the University Théâtre of Nancy
  • International festival of song-choral of Nancy (May)
  • Nancy side scene (free festivities and concert) in July - August.
  • the Aye Aye film festival (international competition of short films) takes place in September.
  • the Book on the Place (literary living room of re-entry, in September).
  • Nancy Jazz Pulsations (each October).
  • Festival of the Saint Nicolas's Day (first weekend of December).
  • Nancy the 2005 time of the Lights - 250e birthday of the Place Stanislas.
  • 24:00 of Stan (demonstration coed organized by the ENSAIA) takes place in May, every 2 years, in alternation with the Aquacité.
  • Nights of Stan: at the end of July (concerts free)
  • Garden of Stanislas (September)
  • Nancyphonies (festival of the classical musics) July/August
  • All with the bar (National Center Choreographic - Ballet of Lorraine) June
  • the Night Coed (the “keys” of the city are offered to the students which benefit from the culture, and of animations in the city, museums, concerts, etc) October
  • the festival forraine in April

Others

  • national choreographic Center of Lorraine ( Ballet of Lorraine , direction Didier Deschamps);

  • Symphony orchestra and lyric of Nancy
  • Conservatory national of area (theater, music, dance);
  • Conservatory Regional of the Image of Lorraine;
  • Media libraries and public libraries;
  • Lillebonne Gallery, Space of Contemporary art;
  • Youth club and arts centres

Sports

See also: Amorce=Voir the category, : Category: Sport in Nancy, Sport in Nancy

  • ACE founded Nancy-Lorraine in 1967;

  • SLUC Nancy Omnisport, and in particular its section tennis shoe which plays as a pro has;
  • Committee of Handball and the Club of ASPTT Nancy-Vandœuvre;

Gastronomy

The bergamot, small yellow rectangular candy, is a well-known speciality nancéienne. In the beginning doubtful joke of a pastrycook who scented a candy with the Eau de Cologne, it since is directly carried out starting from gasolines of Bergamote. This component of eau de Cologne is a fruit close to lemon. It is originating in Sicily, which was then possession of the duke of Lorraine Rene {{Ier}}.

One can also quote: the Lorraine Quiche, the baba (invented by the duke of Lorraine Stanislas Leszczyński), the Lorraine pie, the Mirabelle plum and the Macaroon S, produced since the 17th century, although the towns of Toul and Boulay also produce this speciality since the 19th century.

Exits, restaurants and bars

Nancy is a city considered for its night dynamism, partly thanks to the presence of more than 45.000 students. One counts for example approximately 300 restaurants, 140 bars and a score of discotheques in the agglomeration.

Since the restorations of the Place Stanislas and Old city of Nancy carried out between 2004 and 2007, one witnesses a concentration of establishments around the district of the Stanislas place and along the lanes of the old city.

Moreover, the festivals coeds rythment life of the city (Night Coed, 24 hours of Stan, Gala of several faculties (Surgery-Dental, Droit, Médecine, Pharmacie…), Aquacité…).

Infrastructures

Transportation routes

The Aéroport Metz-Nancy-Lorraine is common to both metropolises, just as the station Lorraine TGV in service since June 10th, 2007 and located in the vicinity. In addition Nancy also has airport in its outskirts of the city: the Airport of Nancy - Essey with Tomblaine. The number of movements is more important there than in Metz-Nancy-Lorraine, but the planes of size much more modest, they are private aircrafts.

At only two hours of road of the Belgium, one hour and half of the Luxembourg and Germany, it has also an interesting opening on the international one. Its economy is inter-connected more and more with his/her sister twins Metz located at only forty minutes of highway. The highway A31 thus is frequently saturated, this is why the regional rail network Métrolor was redesigned recently to improve displacements between the two cities (regional tariffing at reduced price, 46 trains per return tickets day between Nancy and Metz (of which the majority also connect Luxembourg), new air-conditioned oars on two levels. This railway axis extremely continues in the south in direction of Lunéville with 36 trains per return tickets day. Between Nancy and Luxembourg and Nancy and Lunéville, the travellers can count on average on a train all the fifteen minutes in rush hour.

Recently, tariffing is the same one in all the Urban community of Large Nancy without reference to the means of transport, for example Nancy-Jarville thus returns at the same price in train and the urban bus. The rail traffic périurbain is in very strong increase and is based on a score of stations around Nancy. The SNCF and the urban community still wish to develop it.

With nearly 6 million annual travellers, the Gare of Nancy is most important of the Lorraine area.

In 1852, a railway line puts Paris at eight hours of Nancy, against thirty to forty hours of diligence. To the opening of LGV Is European, the trains put nearly three hours to carry out the connection; today Nancy is at one hour and half of Paris.

Nancy is in the middle of a river node: to the confluence of the Moselle and Meurthe, the city is crossed by the channel of the Marne in the Rhine, connected to the channel of the East.

Public transport

See also: Service of transport of the agglomeration nancéienne, Tram of Nancy

The Tramway of Nancy is " on tire with guidance central". After a putting into difficult circulation because of many breakdowns and some incidents, it seems today to answer satisfactorily at the request of displacements within the agglomeration. The incidents which touched the tram of Nancy are especially related to the central roller. That Ci is charged to guide the vehicle like does it a true tram but this roller too often left its guide rail. Moreover even if it is made reliable today there exist always constraints on the level of the tracks of bearing. Indeed because of the repetitive passages to the same place, the tires of the vehicle dig a furrow and deform fitted. To note that these oars can circulate like a Trolleybus. The choice of the town of Nancy is explained by financial reasons. The city found too expensive the realization of a " vrai" Tram and turned to the vehicle proposed by Bombardier. It should be noted that after the failures of Caen and Nancy Bombardier does not propose any more its tyred tram with its catalog. The oars circulate between 4:50 and 00:30 in week, until 1:30 saturdays evenings.

With a Transport document called “PASS'”, it is possible to use the lines of drunk Tramway and and part of the Network FOR THE THIRD TIME, within the limits of the Urban community of Large Nancy, the latter putting in priority the accessibility of the people at reduced mobility.

Nancy is also served by the FOR THE THIRD TIME - Métrolor (regional trains of Lorraine).

The Lorraine area and the Lorraine Furrow (grouping of the agglomerations of Thionville, Metz, Nancy and Épinal under the same entity, representing close to: 900000 inhabitants along the the Moselle) think of the installation of a common smart card, left Transport ticket, giving access to the joint grid systems of the four cities but also to the museums, with the various activities. A first version of this chart, in the name of Simplicities, will be born during the first quarter 2007. Initially, it will be valid for the subscriptions work and studying FOR THE THIRD TIME Metrolor. Thereafter, it is actually intended to be compatible with the joint grid systems of the agglomerations of the Lorraine Furrow.

Lastly, of the subscriptions (chart Jonquil) allow to circulate in the train inside Lorraine, also with the Luxembourg and in the Saar (Germany) (partnership Sar-Lor-Lux) and to use the grid systems (drunk, tram, tram-train) of Nancy, Metz, Luxembourg or Saarbrucken. Future the Simplicités chart will unify most of these various partnerships. Other titles also give connections towards Strasbourg and access to its urban network (drunk, tram).

Higher education

The university past of Nancy goes back to the 18th century, under the reign of Stanislas.

Between 1871 and 1918, Nancy was the only big city of the North-East to remain French. Its university then accommodated several establishments located before at Metz or Strasbourg. It is in this context that Of Strasbourg the Hippolyte Bernheim joined Auguste-Ambroise Liébeault at the medical college of Nancy. They will be the two pillars of the hypnologic School of Nancy . They will be opposed in particular to Jean-Martin Charcot which regarded the Hypnose as pathological. Their work still influences many psychiatrists. It is as in this context as Albin Haller makes his studies, then its searchs of pharmacy and chemistry which will lead it to the foundation and the creation of the chemical Institute of Nancy, then to the presidency of the Academy of Science.

It is in Nancy that the chemist Victor Grignard undertakes his research which will lead it to the Nobel Prize of chemistry in 1912 and to Nancy that Jean Delsarte founds the Association Bourbaki and where many “bourbakists” teach in the years 1950.

European university pole since 1993, the city forms approximately: 45000 students each year and the technological pole (Nancy-Brabois), one of the very first of France, gathers some 1500 researchers (more than 3000 researchers on the whole of the agglomeration). Nancy is a city very coed (close to 40  % of the population nancéienne), most important of the area, following the example Grenoble or Toulouse.

Nancy constitutes with the ENSG and the geological course of the Faculty of Science of Vandœuvre-the-Nancy managed by the department of sciences of the ground of faculty (certain courses common and closely dependant between the ENSG and the Faculty of Science in master) which propose each quality training as well as the Laboratories of geology or bound to the géosciences of the Nancéienne agglomeration (within the federation of research EAST (water, ground, ground) in particular which gathers UPR CNRS CRPG, the UMR LEM, LIMOS and G 2R associated with Them, the BEF and the LCPME (chemistry laboratory) and the LAEGO laboratory of civil engineering treats geology) constitute a geological pole among most important of Europe and famous in the world. The BRGM, installed with Brabois, fact integral part of this pole. Moreover the ENSAIA and the École des Mines of Nancy are related on certain formations to the geological pole.

Universities

Three universities have establishments in Nancy or in its agglomeration. They are federate within a scientific public corporation of co-operation: Nancy-University.

  • also known Nancy-1 under the name of Henri-Poincaré university, gathers the faculties sciences, of medicine, dental surgery and pharmacy, as well as IUT Nancy-Brabois.

  • Nancy-2 as for it is composed in particular of the faculties of right and letters, as well as IUT Nancy Charlemagne.
  • Institut National Polytechnique of Lorraine.

Schools of engineers:

Business school

  • ICN Graduate Business School

Other schools

  • the ENSA (3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of art of Nancy)

  • the EAN (School of architecture of Nancy)
  • the School of Kinesitherapy and Ergothérapie
  • the first Franco-German cycle of the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (Sciences Po)
  • the IECA (European Institute audio-visual cinema)

The project ARTEM

Project ARTEM is one of the more great projects of European university building site. Its objective is to gather on the same site 3 fields of competence and of distinct teaching (artistic creation, engineering and management) in order to create a common synergy in fields as varied as the design, the communication or transport. It is the fruit of a regrouping between 3 universities nancéiennes (École des Mines, 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of art and the commercial Institute of Nancy).

The project will be born on the old barracks molitor which will be shaven in the South-west of Nancy on a surface on the ground of 10 hectares for more than 70.000 m ² of floors.

Colleges

See also: Nancy Colleges

Personalities having taught in Nancy

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