RODEZ, an arrondissement of the department of the Aveyron, in France, which extends over 797 square miles. It comprehends eleven cantons, divided into sixty-nine communes, and in 1836 contained 99,704 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, and the seat of the departmental government and courts of law. It is the seat of a bishop, and has a fine cathedral, with a tower 250 feet high, which is a prominent object at more than forty miles distance. Rodez contains four churches, a lyceum, a hospital, and an exchange, with 9685 inhabitants, extensively employed as coppersmiths, and having manufactures of thin woollens, cutlery, and leather. Long. 2. 29. 5. E. Lat. 44. 21. N.