CHAUDESAIGUES, a village of central France, in the de partment of Cantal, at the foot of the mountains of Aubrac, 19 m. S.S.W. of St. Flour. Pop. (1931) 8o1. It has hot mineral springs, which at their maximum rank as the hottest in France. The water, which contains bicarbonate of soda, is employed medicinally, and also for washing fleeces, incubating eggs and various other economic purposes; and it furnishes a ready means of heating the houses of the town during winter. In the immediate neighbourhood is the cold chalybeate spring of Condamine. The warm springs were known to the Romans, and are mentioned by Sidonius Apollinaris.