GERARDMER, a town of north-eastern France, in the de partment of Vosges, 33 m. E.S.E. of Epinal by rail. Pop. 4,226; of the commune, 10,041. Gerardmer is situated at a height of 2,200 ft. at the eastern end of the small Lake of Gerardmer. It is the chief summer resort of the French Vosges and is a centre for excursions. The town itself carries on cloth-weaving, bleach ing, wood-sawing and the manufacture of wooden goods, felt hats and paper; there is trade in the cheeses (geromes) manu factured in the neighbourhood. Gerardmer is said to owe its name to Gerard of Alsace, I st duke of Lorraine, who in the I I th century built a tower on the bank of the lake near which in 1285 a new town was founded.