One of 15 cantons in the Arrondissement of Épinal, the Canton of Plombières-les-Bains has its administrative centre at Plombières-les-Bains.
François Louis Français (November 17, 1814–1897), French painter, was born at Plombières-les-Bains (Vosges), and, on attaining the age of fifteen, was placed as office-boy with a bookseller.
It was in the village, dominating from its a limestone outcrop the Madon Valley, and also positioned across the old road from Nancy, that the great essayist Montaigne stayed around 1580 before he proceeded to Plombières en route for Italy.
The marriage had also been negotiated out of political reasons during the conference of Plombières (July 1858).
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