[The candidacy and reception of Nancy]

As soon as the peace treaty terms were known (1871), Nancy purposed to shelter the Strasbourg Faculte de Medecine. Nevertheless, many people thought that Lyon would be more suitable for the transfer. Then, the final wars settled by Thiers (President de la Republique) was a political one showing his will to found, close to the new border line, a scientific centre which would include the Strasbourg Faculte de Medecine transferred into Nancy.