a city of France, on the river Garonne, the capital of Agenois, in the province of Guienne, now the department of the Lot and Garonne, and the see of a bishop. The gates and old walls, which are yet remaining, remaining, show that this city is very ancient, and that its former circuit was not so great as the present. The palace, wherein the presidial holds his sessions at this day, was heretofore called the castle of Montavel, and is seated without the walls of the old city, and on the side of the fossé. 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, but very little use is made of this advantage. Its population was 10,834 by the last enumeration. It is seated on the bank of the river Garonne, in a pleasant country; but is itself a very mean and disagreeable place, the houses being ill-built, and the streets narrow, crooked, and dirty. E. Long. o. 35. N. Lat. 44. 12.