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Originally posted by Donut:
Morning Moiraine. No, I've never been to Nancy. Is that statue Stan himself? I believe he was Marie Antoinette's father - or am I way off line?
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Good day Donut. Ah, you are off the mark, but not that far. Stanislas was actually Duke of Lorraine and King of Poland, and the father of Louis XV's wife, Marie Leczinska. Marie Antoinette was Louis XVI's wife.
Stanislas was a well loved Duke, even if he was not the best Duke for poor people. He decided to extend Nancy out of its Middle Age boundaries, by creating a complex of two big Squares and a huge park. The main Square was dedicated to his son-in-law the king Louis XV, and was called the Royal Square, with a statue of the king in the middle. Of course, this statue was destroyed and the Square renamed during the Revolution. I don't remember the exact dates, but it was somewhere during the end of the 19th century that the Square was named Stanislas Square and the statue of Stanislas made and erected in the center of the Square, where it still is.
No, the photo in my sig isn't mine, I borrowed it from a site about Nancy.
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