LA CHARITE, a city of France, in the department of the Nièvre, and arrondissement of Cosne. It is finely situated on the side of a hill, looking down on the Loire. It contains 590 houses, and 5300 inhabitants, who carry on the trades of tanners, hatters, serge and button makers. Long. 2. 56. E. Lat. 47. 10. N.