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Aix-les-Bains (ĕks-lā-băN`), town (1990 pop. 24,826), Savoie dept., SE France, situated on Lake Bourget at the foot of the Alps. It is a popular resort and spa. The town's alum and sulfur springs have been frequented since Roman times. There are ruins of Roman baths.

Aix-les-Bains

a town in E France: a resort with sulphurous springs. Pop.: 25 732 (1999)

Aix-les-Bains

a city in eastern France, in the Savoy Alps, on the Lake of Le Bourget, in Savoie Department. Population, 21,000 (1968). The city has electronics industry. Aix les-Bains is a balneoclimatic health resort. The climate is warm and dry; the average temperature in the summer is 21°C. Curative measures include climatotherapy, sulfide thermal springs (with temperatures of 43.5° to 47°C), and bicarbonate-calcium-chalybeate springs (with temperatures of 15° and 8°C). The spring water is used for bathing, inhaling, and irrigating. Disorders of the organs of movement and support, the nervous system, the female reproductive system, and the skin are treated. Facilities include bath-houses, balneological clinics, hotels, and boarding hotels. Aix-les-Bains is a popular winter-sports resort.

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In the late 19th and early 20th century, when news photography was barely in its infancy, middle-class politicians went confidently off to the continent - none more so than the Worcestershire iron manufacturer Stanley Baldwin, who would go to genteel Aix-les-Bains in the foothills of the French Alps for a whole month, even when he was prime minister.

Say cheese! by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

On this six-day holiday, there are plenty of opportunities to sample the delights of the region, including the elegant town of Aix-les-Bains, with its spa, Belle Epoque buildings, charming gardens and ornate casino, all against the background of towering Mont Blanc.

holiday hotspots by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)

JS Nicole Nieman is living with her parents and younger sister in Aix-les-Bains, France in 1943.

Sachs, Marilyn. Lost in America by Flint-Ferguson, Janis / Kliatt