What is "vosges"

Vosges is a department in the east of France, named after the Vosges Mountains. The department consists of 17 cantons and 515 communes (villages or towns) of which 242 are rural. It contains the hometown of Joan of Arc, Domrémy.

The Vosges ( German: Vogesen ), also called the Vosges Mountains, are a range of low mountains in eastern France, near its border with Germany. Together with the Palatine Forest to the north on the German side of the border, they form a single geomorphological unit and low mountain range of around in area, which runs in a north-northeast direction from the Burgundian Gate (the Belfort– Ronchamp– Lure line) to the Börrstadt Basin (the Winnweiler– Börrstadt– Göllheim line) and which forms the western boundary of the Upper Rhine Plain. The Grand Ballon is their highest peak at 1424 m, followed by the Storkenkopf (1366 m) and the Hohneck (1364 m).

Vosges Haut-Chocolat is a Chicago-based luxury chocolate maker, founded in 1998, that offers exotic varieties flavored with spices, bacon, and other ingredients. It is owned by Katrina Markoff, who also created the Wild Ophelia brand to offer natural non-GMO Americana chocolates.