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Gérardmer (; or archaic ''Geroldsee'', and ''Giraumoué'' in local Vosgian) is a commune in the Vosges department in
Grand Est Grand Est (; gsw-FR, Grossa Oschta; Moselle Franconian/ lb, Grouss Osten; Rhine Franconian: ''Groß Oschte''; german: Großer Osten ; en, "Great East") is an administrative region in Northeastern France. It superseded three former administ ...
in northeastern
France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan ar ...
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Population


Culture

The Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer (literally ''Gérardmer International Festival of fantastic film'', formerly named 'Fantastic'Arts' from 1994 to 2008) is an international festival of
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and fantastic films which has been held each year since 1994 in Gérardmer.


Notable people

* Maximilien Kelsch (1844–1906), industrialist and politician, born in Gérardmer * Paul Cuny (1872–1925), industrialist and politician, born in Gérardmer * Edward Gardère (1909–1997), fencer, born in Gérardmer * André Gardère (1913–1977), fencer, born in Gérardmer * Gilberte Cournand (1913–2005), journalist and dance critic, gallery owner and bookseller, born in Gérardmer * Claude Vanony (1935), storyteller and humorist, born in Gérardmer * Patrick Rémy (1965), cross-country skier, born in Gérardmer * Raphaël Dargent (1970), historian, essayist and writer, born in Gérardmer * Julien Bontemps (1979), sailor, learnt to sail in Gérardmer * Maxime Laheurte (1985), world nordic combined team champion (2012), born in Gérardmer * Émile Duguet,
Righteous Among the Nations Righteous Among the Nations ( he, חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, ; "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to s ...
, concealed Jews at his home in GérardmerAnonymes, Justes et Persécutés durant la période Nazie dans les communes de France
Émile Duguet


Twin towns

* Le Locle, Switzerland * Tidermène,
Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Ma ...
* Waremme,
Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to ...


See also

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Communes of the Vosges department The following is a list of the 507 communes of the Vosges department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022):Communes of Vosges (department) Vosges communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Vosges-geo-stub