POL DE LEON, St, a town of France, in the department of Finistère, on the slope of a hill near the sea, 10 miles N.N.W. of Morlaix. It reminds the visitor of St Andrews in Scotland, being, like it, an ancient ecclesiastical but now almost deserted town, with grass-grown streets, and a very melancholy aspect. It contains two fine churches. The cathedral, built partly in the thirteenth and partly in the sixteenth century, has two beautiful towers surmounted with spires. The church of Kreizker, i.e., middle of the town, is chiefly remarkable for its lofty spire of open work in granite, rising from a richly-ornamented square tower to the height of 404 feet above the ground, being second only to Strasburg among the spires of France. The manufacture of linen is carried on; and many of the inhabitants are employed in fishing. It has some trade through the suburb of Penpoul, on the sea-shore. Pop. 7059.