CHARLEVILLE, a remarkably handsome and well built town of France, on the left bank of the Meuse, department of Ardennes, arrondissement and one mile N. of the town of Mézières, with which it is connected by an avenue and suspension bridge. Since the end of the seventeenth century, when its fortifications were destroyed, it has become a thriving place, and has manufactures of nails, hardware, firearms, &c., and an active export trade in wine, spirits, coal, iron, and slates. It has tribunals of primary instance and commerce, a commodious port, theatre, public library of 24,000 volumes, and cabinet of natural history. The royal manufactory of arms, formerly established here, has been transferred to Tulle and Chatellerault. Pop. 9000.