a 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 town-house 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 ballustrade. 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.