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Lunéville (Municipality, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France)

by Ivan Sache

Presentation of the city
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Presentation of the city

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 officia