Within France it is administratively located in the commune of Laveissière, the canton of Murat, the arrondissement of Saint-Flour, the department of Cantal, and the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

However, the village of Prat de Bouc is located in the commune of Albepierre-Bredons, but shares the same upwards administrative chain as the other settlements.

As the end of the 1950s approached, Hector Peschaud, the sénateur and président of the conseil général at the time proposed the idea of constructing a resort on the site of Prairie de Sagnes.

The department of Cantal put out a tender for architects and mountain developers to build a resort on the site.

This prompted a major contributor to the development of the resort with the construction of the Téléphérique du Plomb du Cantal, an eighty place cable car, completed in 1967 with the aid of, and inaugurated by, locally born Georges Pompidou who would shortly succeed Charles de Gaulle as President of France.