SAINT-DI

town, Vosges dpartement, Lorraine rgion, northeastern France, on the Meurthe River, southeast of Nancy. A bishop's see, it grew up around the monastery of Saint-Deodatus, or Dieudonn (7th century), from which its name is derived. It has a printing industry dating from the 16th century and was the place where Martin Waldseemller printed his geographic pamphlet Cosmographiae introductio (1507), in which the name America appeared in print for the first time. Its 12th-century Romanesque Notre-Dame church survived the heavy destruction of World War II, but its medieval cathedral was destroyed. Saint-Di was the birthplace (1832) of the French statesman Jules Ferry. Pop. (1990) 23,670.