CHALONS, an arrondissement in the department of the Upper Saone and Loire, in France, extending over 795 square miles, and comprising ten cantons and 160 communes, with 108,336 inhabitants. The chief place, a city of the same name, distinguished by the adjunct “Sur Saone,” is a well-situated and well-built town, the seat of the local courts of judicature, and containing 1257 houses, with 11,128 inhabitants. It is a place of considerable trade, being a kind of entrepôt for the commodities of the north and south of the kingdom, especially for corn, wine, oil, iron, copper, and soap.