Vosges (French pronunciation: [voʒ] ) is a department in the Grand Est region, Northeastern France. It covers part of the Vosges mountain range, after which it is named. Vosges consists of three arrondissements, 17 cantons and 507 communes, including Domrémy-la-Pucelle, where Joan of Arc was born. In 2019, it had a population of 364,499 with an area of 5,874 km (2,268 sq mi); its prefecture is Épinal.

Joan of Arc was born in the village of Domrémy, then in the French part of the Duchy of Bar, or Barrois mouvant, located west of the Meuse. The part of the duchy lying east of the Meuse was part of the Holy Roman Empire. The Duchy of Bar later became part of the province of Lorraine. The village of Domrémy was renamed Domrémy-la-Pucelle in honour of Joan.

The Vosges department is one of the original 83 departments of France, created on 4 March 1790 during the French Revolution. It was made of territories that had been part of the province of Lorraine. In German it is referred to as Vogesen.

In 1793, the independent Principality of Salm-Salm (town of Senones and its surroundings), enclosed inside the Vosges department, was annexed to France and incorporated into Vosges. In 1795, the area of Schirmeck was detached from the Bas-Rhin department and incorporated into the Vosges department. The Vosges department then had an area of 6,127 km (2,366 sq mi), which it kept until 1871.

In 1794, Vosges was the site of a major battle between the forces of Revolutionary France and the Allied Coalition. The oldest square in Paris, Place Royale, was renamed Place des Vosges in 1800 when the department became the first to pay the new revolutionary taxes.

After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, 4% of the Vosges department in the extreme northeast of the department was annexed to the German Empire by the Treaty of Frankfurt on the ground that the people there spoke Germanic dialects. The area annexed on 18 May 1871 corresponded to the canton of Schirmeck and the northern half of the canton of Saales. Schirmeck and Saales had been historically part of Alsace. These territories, along with the rest of Alsace and the annexed territories of Lorraine, became part of the Reichsland of Elsaß-Lothringen. The area of the Vosges department was thus reduced to its current 5,874 km (2,268 sq mi).

In 1919, with the allied victory in the World War I, Alsace-Lorraine was returned to France by Germany at the Treaty of Versailles. However, Schirmeck and Saales were not returned to the Vosges department, but instead were incorporated into the recreated Bas-Rhin department.

An ill-fated Special Air Service (SAS) mission called Operation Loyton took place in the Vosges forests in 1944.

Various military cemeteries are located in the department, the largest of which is the Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial in Dinozé, near Épinal. It was built by the American 45th Infantry Division in September 1944 and completed in 1959. 5,253 soldiers killed in action during fighting in France, the Vosges, the Rhine valley and Germany are interred there.

While the west part of the Vosges is flat sedimentary land (well suited for mineral waters), the east is dominated by the Vosges Mountain range and the Ballons des Vosges Nature Park. The Hohneck at 1363m is the highest peak of the Vosges department. The Monts Faucilles traverse the south of the department in a broad curve declining on the north into elevated plateaus, on the south encircling the upper basin of the River Saône. This chain, dividing the basins of the Rhône and the Rhine, forms part of the European watershed between the basins of the Mediterranean and Atlantic. 48% of the department is covered by woodlands and forests (the third highest in France), while 45% of land is in agricultural use.

The Saône (named after the Celtic goddess Sagona) rises at Vioménil, in the Vosges. The Anger river also passes through it.

The most populated commune is Épinal, the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 9 communes with more than 5,000 inhabitants:

Commune	Population (2019)
Épinal	32,256
Saint-Dié-des-Vosges	19,576
Golbey	8,798
Thaon-les-Vosges	8,634
Gérardmer	7,807
Remiremont	7,691
Neufchâteau	6,636
Raon-l'Étape	6,205
Rambervillers	5,096

Population development since 1801:

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1801 308,920 —     1806 334,169 +1.58% 1831 397,987 +0.70% 1841 419,992 +0.54% 1851 427,409 +0.18% 1861 415,485 −0.28% 1872 392,988 −0.50% 1881 406,862 +0.39% 1891 410,196 +0.08% 1901 421,104 +0.26% 1911 433,914 +0.30% 1921 383,684 −1.22% 1931 377,980 −0.15%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1936 376,926 −0.06% 1946 342,315 −0.96% 1954 372,523 +1.06% 1962 380,676 +0.27% 1968 388,201 +0.33% 1975 397,957 +0.36% 1982 395,769 −0.08% 1990 386,258 −0.30% 1999 380,952 −0.15% 2006 379,975 −0.04% 2011 378,830 −0.06% 2016 369,641 −0.49%
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The Roman fortified town of Grand, located 30 km from Toul, has an amphitheatre and a temple to the Cult of Apollo. At La Bure, located a few kilometres from Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, archaeologists have found evidence for human habitation going back to around 2000 BC.

As a border area, the Vosges region was a route for possible invasion. As such four important forts were constructed in the department: Bourlémont Fort in Mont-les-Neufchâteau (built between 1878 and 1881); Uxegney Fort (built between 1882 and 1884); Bois l'Abbé Fort (built in 1884 and 1885); and the Le Parmont Fort in Remiremont (built between 1874 and 1876).

The president of the Departmental Council is François Vannson, first elected in 2015.

Election		Winning Candidate	Party	%	2nd Place Candidate	Party	%
	2022	Emmanuel Macron	LREM	47.59	Marine Le Pen	RN	52.41
	2017	Emmanuel Macron	LREM	55.26	Marine Le Pen	FN	44.74
	2012	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	50.94	François Hollande	PS	49.06
	2007	Nicolas Sarkozy	UMP	54.72	Ségolène Royal	PS	45.28
	2002	Jacques Chirac	RPR	78.81	Jean-Marie Le Pen	FN	21.19
	1995	Jacques Chirac	RPR	51.44	Lionel Jospin	PS	48.56

Constituency		Member	Party
	Vosges's 1st constituency	Stéphane Viry	Miscellaneous right
	Vosges's 2nd constituency	Gaëtan Dussausaye	National Rally
	Vosges's 3rd constituency	Christophe Naegelen	Miscellaneous right
	Vosges's 4th constituency	Sébastien Humbert	National Rally

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  Fort of Épinal
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  Birth house of Joan of Arc in Domrémy-la-Pucelle
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  Statue of Joan of Arc erected in 1909 at the former border with Alsace-Lorraine
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  The Vosges mountain range in La Bresse
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  Saint-Dié Cathedral
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  Lac de Gérardmer
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  Rainkopf

• Cantons of the Vosges department
• Communes of the Vosges department
• Arrondissements of the Vosges department

• (in French) Vosges.com Economic information about the Vosges
• (in French) Departmental Council website
• (in French) Prefecture website
• (in English) Tourisme Vosges
• Illustrated Article on the Vosges Battlefields in Winter at 'Battlefields Europe'
• Climbbybike.com: All information on and profiles of the climbs and cols of the Vosges
• "Vosges" . Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921.