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Plombières (plôNbyĕr`) or Plombières-les-Bains (–lā-băN), village, Vosges dept., NE France, in the Vosges Mts. It is a fashionable spa, with radioactive springs used since Roman times for medicinal purposes. Housewares and embroidered goods are also made there. Plombières was the scene of a meeting (1858) between Napoleon III and Cavour, which resulted in the cession of Savoy and Nice to France.
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No references found | In 1824, the aging, infirm painter, now seventy-eight and deaf from two bouts of near fatal illness, profited from permission to take the waters at Plombieres, for his health, to escape to Bordeaux, where many Spanish free-thinkers had preceded him. The threadbare plot centres around an international delegation that, en route to the king's coronation in Reims, is stranded in Plombieres. Barbusse began Le feu in a hospital in Chartres, where he was evacuated in January 1916, and finished it in a hospital in Plombieres, 3 August 1916. |
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