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Article: Cities, squares and courts: the restoration of Place Stanislas in Nancy is the occasion for a splendid exhibition on urban design in Enlightenment Europe.(Exhibitions)
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On 19 May 2005, in the presence of Jacques Chirac, Helmut Schroder and Aleksandr Kwasniewski, the authorities of Nancy, capital of Lorraine, inaugurated the restored Place Stanislas, one of the glories of eighteenth-century urban planning. In ten months, this magnificent square (Fig. 1), designed by Emmanuel Here, with contributions by Barthelemy Guibal and Jean Lamour, has been cleaned, repaired and pedestrianised in order to commemorate the 250th anniversary of its commission by the exiled King Stanislas Leszczynski of Poland-Lithuania (1677-1766), living in Nancy as Duke of Lorraine and Bar, the father-in-law of Louis xv of France. This event is being marked by a major ...
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