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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. E.S.E. of See also:Nancy on the railway to See also:Strassburg. Pop. (1906) town, 19,199; See also:commune, 24,266 (including troops). 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. 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. It is now a See also:cavalry See also:barracks, and the gardens See also:form a public See also:promenade. Luneville is an important cavalry station with a large See also:riding school. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Jacques with its two domed towers See also:dates from 1730-1745. There are statues of See also:General See also:Count See also:Antoine de See also:Lasalle, and of the Conventional See also:Abbe See also:Henri See also:Gregoire. The town is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect, and has a tribunal of first instance and a communal See also:college. It carries on See also:cotton-See also:spinning and the manufacture of railway material, motor vehicles, See also:porcelain, toys, See also:hosiery, See also:embroidery, See also:straw-hats and gloves. See also: Trade is in See also:grain, See also:wine, See also:tobacco, hops and other agricultural produce.
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 (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Mond, Du. maan, Dan. maane, &c., and cognate with such Indo-Germanic forms as Gr. µlip, Sans. ma's, Irish mi, &c.; Lat. uses luna, i.e. lucna, the shining one, lucere, to shine, for the moon, but preserves the word i
- MOON, SIR RICHARD, 1ST BARONET (1814-1899)
moon goddess, a sacred See also:fountain and medals with the effigy of this goddess having been found at Leormont, some 2 M. E. of the town. Luneville belonged to See also:Austrasia, and after various changes See also:fell, in 1344, to the See also:house of Lorraine. 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:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. from war, See also:plague and See also:famine. The town flourished again under See also:Dukes Leopold and Stanislas, on the See also:death of the latter of whom, which took See also:place at Luneville, Lorraine was See also:united to France (1766). The treaty of Luneville between France and See also:Austria (18o1) confirmed the former See also:power in the See also:possession of the See also:left bank of the See also:Rhine.
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