Villers-lès-Nancy

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Villers-lès-Nancy
Villers-lès-Nancy is located in France
Villers-lès-Nancy
Villers-lès-Nancy
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Location within Lorraine region
Villers-lès-Nancy is located in Lorraine
Villers-lès-Nancy
Villers-lès-Nancy
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Country France
Region Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine
Department Meurthe-et-Moselle
Arrondissement Nancy
Canton Laxou
Intercommunality Grand Nancy
Government
 • Mayor (2001–2008) Pascal Jacquemin
Area1 9.95 km2 (3.84 sq mi)
Population (2012)2 14,386
 • Density 1,400/km2 (3,700/sq mi)
Time zone CET (GMT +1)
INSEE/Postal code 54578 / 54600
Elevation 224–381 m (735–1,250 ft)
(avg. 285 m or 935 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Villers-lès-Nancy is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.

Inhabitants are known as Villarois.

Geography

Villers-lès-Nancy is a suburb on the southwest of Nancy. The commune goes from Nancy to the Haye forest.

It is composed of three quarters :

  • the Mairie-Placieux quarter, which is the closest to Nancy,
  • the Botanique-Village quarter, which goes from the Jardin botanique du Montet to the Brabois plateau,
  • the Clairlieu quarter, in a large opening of the Haye forest, beyond the A 33.

The neighbourhood communes of the Grand Nancy are : Laxou, Nancy and Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy.

Points of interest

Mayors

  • 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 Valet, 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 Moisson, 1947
  • Paul Muller, 1965
  • Jean Bernardaux, 1980
  • Pascal Jacquemin, 2001

Twin towns

Events

  • Fête des Vendanges, a wine harvest celebration that occurs at the end of August/beginning of September
  • Faites du solaire, another feast that occurs each year in October

See also

fête de vendanges qui se déroulr toujours le premier weekend de septembre

External links

  1. Official website of Villers-lès-Nancy
  2. Nancy spéléodrome, localized on in Villers-lès-Nancy

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