a city of France, on the river Garonne, the capital of Agenois, in the province of Guienne, now the department of the Garonne, and the see of a bishop. The gates and old walls, which are yet remaining, show that this city is very ancient, and that its former circuit was not so great as the present. The palace, wherein the preludial holds his sessions at this day, was heretofore called the castle of Montravel, and is seated without the walls of the old city, and on the side of the fosse. There are likewise the ruins of another castle called La Sagne, which was without the walls, close by a brook. Though the situation of Agen is convenient for trade and commerce, the inhabitants are so extremely indolent that there is very little of which the neighbouring cities take the advantage. It is seated on the bank of the river Garonne, in a pleasant country; but itself a very mean and disagreeable place, the houses being ill-built, and the streets narrow, crooked, and dirty. E. Long. o. 30. N. Lat. 44. 12.