LURE, an arrondissement of the department of the Upper Saône, in France, extending over 881 square miles. It is divided into ten cantons, and these again into 211 communes, containing 118,500 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Oignon, in a district woody and mountainous, in which are numerous mines of coal. It contains 430 houses, and 2420 inhabitants.