PONS, St, a town of France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Hérault, on the Jaur, an affluent of the Orb, 60 miles W. of Montpellier. It is well built, chiefly of variegated marble, quarried in the vicinity. The church, of this material, is historically of some interest. St Pons has also an ecclesiastical school, a communal college, a tribunal of the first instance, manufactories of woollen cloth, dye-works, tanneries, saw and flour mills, &c. There is some trade in corn and cattle. Iron mines, as well as marble quarries, are worked in the vicinity. Pop. (1856) 6512.