Editing Vosges (department) (section)

===French Revolution===
The Vosges department is one of the original 83 departments of France, created on 4 March 1790 during the [[French Revolution]].<ref name=splaf/> It was made of territories that had been part of the province of [[Lorraine (province)|Lorraine]]. In [[German language|German]] it is referred to as ''Vogesen''.

In 1793, the independent [[Salm-Salm|Principality of Salm-Salm]] (town of [[Senones, Vosges|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.<ref>{{cite journal |author=P.S. |year=2002 |title=L'Essor, Revue trimestrielle de Schirmeck |journal=Le Pays Lorrain |volume=83 |page=255 |publisher=Société d'archéologie lorraine et du Musée historique lorrain |issn=0031-3394 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mthnAAAAMAAJ&q=Schirmeck%201795&pg=PA255 |language=fr |format=PDF |access-date=3 August 2009}}</ref> The Vosges department then had an area of {{convert|6,127|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, which it kept until 1871.

In 1794, Vosges was the site of a [[Battle of Trippstadt|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.