Villers-lès-Nancy (, literally ''Villers
near Nancy'') 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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.
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
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.
Population
Points of interest
*
Jardin botanique du Montet
File:Villers st fiacre.JPG, Church of Saint-Fiacre.
File:Villers st therese.JPG, Church of Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'enfant-Jésus.
File:Villers st bernard.JPG, Church of Saint-Bernard (Clairlieu).
File:Villers orthodoxe.JPG, Orthodox chapel of the Gauls.
File:Villers seminaire.JPG, Major Seminar of l’Asnée.
File:Villers abbaye clairlieu.JPG, Ancient Cistercian abbey of the place-dit ''Clairlieu''.
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
*
Oerlinghausen,
Germany
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, 1988
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
*
References
External links
Official website of Villers-lès-Nancy
Villerslesnancy
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