an handsome and considerable town of France, capital of Lower Normandy, with a celebrated university, and an academy of literature. It contains 60 streets, and 12 parishes. It has a castle with four towers, which were built by the English. The townhouse is a large building with four great towers. The royal square is the handsomest in all Normandy, and has fine houses on three sides of it; and in the middle is the statue of Louis XIV. in a Roman habit, standing on a marble pedestal, and surrounded with an iron balustrade. It is seated in a pleasant country on the river Orne, about eight miles from the sea. William the conqueror was buried here, in the abbey of St Stephen, which he founded. W. Long. o. 27. N. Lat. 49. 11.

CÆRE, (anc. geog.), a town of Etruria, the royal residence of Mezentius. Its ancient name was Argyle. In Strabo's time not the least vestige of it remained, except the baths called caeretana. From this town the Roman censor's tables were called cerites tabulae. In these were entered the names of such as for some misdemeanor forfeited their right of suffrage, or were degraded from a higher to a less honourable tribe. For the people of Cære hospitably receiving those Romans who, after the taking of Rome by the Gauls, fled with their gods and the sacred fire of Vesta, were, on the Romans recovering themselves from this disaster, honoured with the privilege of the city, but without a right of voting.

CÆRITES TABULA. See the preceding article.