Nancy

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

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

The Place Stanislas, Place de la Carri?e, 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?ie 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

• ?ole nationale des beaux-arts de Nancy
• Ecole Nationale Sup?ieure des Mines de Nancy