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LUNEVILLE
, an See also:industrial and See also:garrison See also:town of See also:north-eastern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, 21 M
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E.S.E. of See also:Nancy on the railway to See also:Strassburg
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Pop
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(1906) town, 19,199; See also:commune, 24,266 (including troops)
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The town stands on the right See also:bank of the Meurthe between that See also:river and its affluent the Vezouze, a little above their confluence
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Its See also:chateau, designed See also:early in the 18th See also:century by the royal architect Germain Boffrand, was the favourite See also:residence of See also:Duke See also:Leopold of See also:Lorraine, where he gathered See also:round him an See also:academy composed of eminent men of the See also:district
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It is now a See also:cavalry See also:barracks, and the gardens See also:form a public See also:promenade
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Luneville is an important cavalry station with a large See also:riding school
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The See also:
See also:Trade is in See also:grain, See also:wine, See also:tobacco, hops and other agricultural produce
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The name of Luneville (Lunae See also:villa) is perhaps derived from
an See also:ancient cult of See also:Diana, the See also:moon goddess, a sacred See also:fountain and medals with the effigy of this goddess having been found at Leormont, some 2 M
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E. of the town
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Luneville belonged to See also:Austrasia, and after various changes See also:fell, in 1344, to the See also:house of Lorraine
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A walled town in the See also:middle ages, it suffered in the See also:Thirty Years' See also:War and in the See also:campaigns of See also: |
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