Villers-lès-Nancy

Villers-lès-Nancy (, literally Villers near Nancy) is a commune in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department in north-eastern France.

Inhabitants are known as Villarois.

Geography
Villers-lès-Nancy is a suburb on the southwest of Nancy. The commune goes from Nancy to the Haye forest.

It is composed of three quarters :
 * the Mairie-Placieux quarter, which is the closest to Nancy,
 * the Botanique-Village quarter, which goes from the Jardin botanique du Montet to the Brabois plateau,
 * the Clairlieu quarter, in a large opening of the Haye forest, beyond the A 33.

The neighbourhood communes of the Grand Nancy are : Laxou, Nancy and Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy.

Points of interest

 * Jardin botanique du Montet

Mayors

 * François Villard, 1791
 * Jean Claude Charbonnier, 1791
 * François Villard, 1792
 * Dieudonné Pierson, 1794
 * François Villard, 1794
 * Dieudonné Pierson, 1799
 * François Houard, 1816
 * Lefebvre, 1821
 * Jean Claude Clement, 1831
 * François Pierson, 1848
 * Amédée Lefebre de Monjoie, 1871
 * Hubert Simon, 1875
 * Louis Valet, 1888
 * Anatole de Scitivaux de Greische, 1900
 * Louis Porry, 1912
 * Louis Pierson de Brabois, 1915
 * Charles Oudille, 1919
 * Hyppolyte Briot, 1927
 * Albert Cattenoz, 1935
 * Martial Mourot, 1942
 * Maurice Andre, 1944
 * Raymond Villaume, 1945
 * James Moisson, 1947
 * Paul Muller, 1965
 * Jean Bernardaux, 1980
 * Pascal Jacquemin, 2001

Twin towns

 * 🇩🇪 Oerlinghausen, Germany, 1988

Events

 * Fête des Vendanges, a wine harvest celebration that occurs at the end of August/beginning of September
 * Faites du solaire, another feast that occurs each year in October