CHARTRE, an arrondissement in the department of the Indre, in France, extending over 620 square miles. It is divided into five cantons, and these into sixty-five communes, with 42,475 inhabitants. The capital, which gives its name to the arrondissement, is a city on a hill, at whose foot the Indre flows, which contains 520 houses, and 3926 inhabitants, who have some trade in cattle and in wool. Long. 1. 51. E. Lat. 46. 55. N.