an arrondissement of the department of the Nièvre, in France, extending over 770 square miles. It is divided into five cantons, and these into fifty-eight communes, with 48,721 inhabitants. The chief place is a city of the same name, on the summit of a hill, at the foot of which the Yonne flows. It contains 205 houses, with 1733 inhabitants. There are some woollen manufactures, several tanneries, and some trade in cattle, and also in wood, which is floated down to Paris by the Seine. Long. 3. 38. E. Lat. 47. 2. N.