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Nancy

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


Nancy is a city, préfecture (capital) of the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, in Lorraine in north-eastern France. It has a population of approximately 102,000.

The Place Stanislas, Place de la Carrière, 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:

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

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