Villers-the-Nancy is a common French, located in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle and the area Lorraine.

Geography

Villers-the-Nancy is located at the North-East of France, in the south-western suburbs of Nancy. It extends since Nancy until on the plate from the Hague and its forest.

The commune is made up of three districts:

• the district Town hall-Placieux , which is closest to Nancy,
• the district Botany-Village , which goes from the village to the Botanical garden of Montet and the plate of Brabois,
• the district of Clairlieu (gentilé " Clairlocois") , in a clearing of the Forest of the Hague, beyond the highway A33.

The frontier communes in Large Nancy are: Laxou, Nancy and Vandœuvre-the-Nancy.

History

founded Cistercian abbey of Clairlieu about the year 1150, in activity until the French revolution.

Blazon

" Of money, with the abbey stick of azure posed out of stake, accosted of two stars with five of the same rays; with the gold escutcheon, with the band of mouths charged with three let us alérions of money (which is of Lorraine), stitching on the whole and posed in heart; with the cover of azure sown with dextral of crosses recroisetées with the driven foot of gold, with the crenelated sand tower in the same way, opened, openwork and built stitching on the whole, charged with sinistral with a fruity grape, stem; broken into leaf and bored also gold, nervé of sand, the gimlets forming as a chief the letter “V” "

Mayors of Villers-the-Nancy

• François Villard 1791
• Jean Claude Charbonnier 1791
• François Villard 1792
• Dieudonné Pierson 1794
• François Villard 1794
• Dieudonné Pierson 1799
• François Houard 1816
• Lefebvre 1821
• Jean Claude Clement 1831
• François Pierson 1848

• Amédée Lefebre de Monjoie 1871
• Hubert Simon 1875
• Louis Servant 1888
• Anatole de Scitivaux de Greische 1900
• Louis Porry 1912
• Louis Pierson de Brabois 1915
• Charles Oudille 1919
• Hyppolyte Briot 1927
• Albert Cattenoz 1935
• Martial Mourot 1942
• Maurice Andre 1944
• Raymond Villaume 1945
• James Harvest 1947
• Paul Muller 1965
• Jean Bernardaux 1980
• Pascal Jacquemin 2001

Twinning

Demonstrations

• Festival of the Grape harvest (the 1st week end of September)
• Made solar (October)

Places and monuments

• Great seminar of Asnée, built under the direction of the architect Jules Criqui between 1932 to 1936
• Castle of Madam de Graffigny with her park decorated of remarkable trees

See too

• Urban community of Large Nancy (CUGN)
• Common of Meurthe-et-Moselle

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