a town of the Netherlands in Flanders, and capital of a district called Tourneais, with a bishop's see. It is divided into two parts by the river Scheldt, is well built, and contained 21,300 inhabitants in 1800. It carries on a great trade in woollen stuffs and stockings. The cathedral is a very handsome structure, and contains a great many chapels, and several magnificent tombs of marble and brass. The town was taken by the allies in 1799; but was ceded to the house of Austria by the treaty of Utrecht, though the Dutch had a right to put in a garrison. It was taken by the French in June 1745, who demolished the fortifications. In 1781 the emperor Joseph II. obliged the Dutch to withdraw their garrison. It was taken by the French in 1791, abandoned in 1793, again conquered by them in 1794, and finally united to the kingdom of the Netherlands in 1814. It is 14 miles southeast of Lisle, and 135 north-by-east from Paris. E. Long. 3. 25. N. Lat. 50. 35.