Last modified: 2002-11-02 by ivan sache
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Lunéville is a city of ca. 25,000 inhabitants.
The city is famous for table crockery (with a former Royal
manufacture) and a XVIIIth century palace closely associated to the
history of Lorraine. Lorraine was then a
rich, independent Duchy. Duke Leopold asked in 1702 the architect
Boffrand, whose master had been the famous Mansart, to build a
reduced-size replica of the palace of Versailles ('the little
Versailles'). Later on, Lunéville was the favorite residence
of last Duke of Lorraine, Stanislas Leszczynski (1677-1766). who died
in the palace on 23 February 1766. Stanislas was the father-in-law of
King of France Louis XV and had to abandon the throne of Poland after
the Succession War (1733-1738). In the same time, Duke of Lorraine
François III exchanged his Duchy for the
Duchy of Tuscany. Louis XV took the
opportunity to install Stanislas on the throne of Lorraine, in order
to prepare the rattachement of Lorraine to France, which occurred at
the death of Stanislas. Anyway, Stanislas was beloved in Lorraine and
nicknamed 'the Munificent' because he protected the arts and
embellished the cities of the duchy (including the famous place
Stanislas in Nancy).
In 1801, France and Austria signed in Lunéville a treaty
confirming the treaty of Campoformio and officializing the increased
power of France in Italy.
Sources:
Ivan Sache, 25 April 2000
The municipal flag of Lunéville has a yellow field with a large blue stripe per bend, charged with three white moon (lune in French) crescents. It is a banner of the municipal arms.
Ivan Sache, 25 April 2000
There is a school in Port Elizabeth (South Africa) which has arms derived from those of the Dukes of Lorraine - and the colours are those of Lunéville. The school is in a suburb called Lorraine, which has street names taken from French towns and cities. One of the streets is Lunéville Avenue.
Mike Oettle, 14 October 2002