Nancy is the prefecture of the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine,which was annexed by France under King Louis XV in 1766 and replaced by a province,with Nancy maintained as capital. Following its rise to prominence in the Age of Enlightenment,it was nicknamed the "capital of Eastern France" in the late 19th century. The metropolitan area of Nancy had a population of 511,257 inhabitants at the 2018 census,making it the 16th-largest functional urban area in France and Lorraine's largest. The population of the city of Nancy proper is 104,885.
The École normale supérieure –PSL is a grande école in Paris,France. It is one of the constituent members of Paris Sciences et Lettres University (PSL). Due to its special historical role,large endowment,and influence within French society,the ENS is generally considered the most prestigious of the grandes écoles. Its pupils are generally referred to as normaliens, while its alumni are generally referred to as archicubes.
Mines Paris –PSL,officially École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris,is a French grande école and a constituent college of PSL Research University. It was originally established in 1783 by King Louis XVI.
The grands établissements are French public institutions under ministerial charter within the administrative category referred to as Établissements publics àcaractère scientifique,culturel et professionnel (EPCSP).
Adrien Goetz is a French Art History Professor,art critic and novelist. He graduated from the École Normale Supérieure. His work appeared in Zurban,and Beaux-Arts Magazine. He is Lecturer in Art History at the Sorbonne.,and the Editor of Grande Galerie,the magazine published by the Louvre Museum. Adrien Goetz was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts - Institut de France in December 2018.
Claude Viallat is a French contemporary painter.
The École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs is a public grande école of art and design of PSL Research University. The school is located in the Rue d'Ulm in Paris.
Jacques Adnet was a French art deco modernist designer,architect and interior designer.
Bruno Racine is a French civil servant and writer.
École des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Adel Abdessemed is an Algerian-French contemporary artist. He has worked in a variety of media,including animation,installation,performance,sculpture and video. Some of his work relates to the topic of violence in the world.
Yves Michaud is a French philosopher. As a student,he studied philosophy and science at École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris. His early research involved the study of political violence and empiricism,especially the works of John Locke and David Hume. He was Director of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts from 1989 to 1997. In 2000,Michaud partnered with Jean-Jacques Aillagon to establish the Universitéde tous les savoirs,a French government initiative to disseminate information on new scientific advances.
Paris Sciences et Lettres University is a public research university based in Paris,France. It was established in 2010 and formally created as a university in 2019. It is a collegiate university with 11 constituent schools,with the oldest founded in 1530. PSL is located in central Paris,with its main sites in the Latin Quarter,at the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève campus,at the Jourdan campus,at Porte Dauphine,and at CarréRichelieu.
Victor Edmond Nicolas was a French sculptor.
An Établissement public àcaractère administratif is,in France,a public law legal person with a certain administrative and financial autonomy to fulfil a mission of public interest under the control of the State or a local authority.
Henri Clément Serveau,also known as Clément-Serveau,was a French painter,designer,engraver and illustrator. Clément-Serveau produced works in a realist manner early on,but soon became interested in the new movements. He was influenced by his friend Louis Marcoussis and experimented with Cubism,utilising geometric patterns to give the illusion of form and space. Later in his career,he turned toward abstraction with a post-cubist stance. He designed banknotes for the Banque de France,produced large murals and participated in numerous French and international exhibitions.
Les Graphiquants is a design consultancy based in Paris,France,with a reputation for serving the cultural field and the arts.
Frédéric Jousset is a French entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder and co-chairman of Webhelp,a business outsourcing company headquartered in France. He is also the administrator of the Musée du Louvre as of December 2016.
Meir Eshel,known professionally as Absalon,was an Israeli-French artist and sculptor.
Ambroise Roux was a French businessman and political advisor. He was the chief executive officer of Compagnie générale d'électricitéfrom 1970 to 1981. He was the founding president of the French Association of Private Enterprises (AFEP). On his death,President Jacques Chirac called him "one of the great figures of French capitalism."
