Plombières-les-Bains (French pronunciation: [plɔ̃bjɛʁ le bɛ̃] ⓘ) is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in eastern France.

In succeeding centuries, its baths were visited by Montaigne, Voltaire, the Dukes of Guise, the Dukes of Lorraine, Beaumarchais, Napoleon Bonaparte, Joséphine de Beauharnais, Charles XIV John, Napoléon III, Berlioz, Lamartine and Alfred de Musset.

It is still a spa town with many buildings from the Second French Empire including the Church Saint Amé built with the financial support of Napoléon III.

In Russia, the highest of the state standard quality categories of ice cream, containing at least 12% butterfat, is known as "plombir" (пломбир), a slight distortion of the pronunciation of "Plombières" in Russian.

According to Dmitry Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language and Max Vasmer's authoritative "Etymological dictionary of the Russian language", the French dessert plombieres is named after Plombières, whose name has been associated with extravagant frozen desserts since the late 19th century.