Pompey () is a
commune in the
Meurthe-et-Moselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle () is a '' département'' in the Grand Est region of France, named after the rivers Meurthe and Moselle. Its prefecture and largest city is Nancy and it borders the departments of Meuse to the west, Vosges to the south, ...
department in north-eastern
France
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.
It is an industrial town (mainly steel industry), at the confluence of the rivers
Moselle
The Moselle ( , ; ; ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz. A sm ...
and
Meurthe.
Population
Notable people
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Nicolas-Antoine Nouet, born 1740 in Pompey, died 1811 in
Chambéry
Chambéry (, , ; Franco-Provençal, Arpitan: ''Chambèri'') is the Prefectures in France, prefecture and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of the Savoie Departments of France, department in the southeastern ...
, astronomer
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Marcel Le Bihan (1923-2009), ''resistant'' and former mayor of the commune
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Hubert Haenel (1942-2015), politician and a member of the Senate of France
Astronomy
The
minor planet
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18636 Villedepompey is named after the town.
See also
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References
External links
Town's website
Communes of Meurthe-et-Moselle
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