arrondissement of the department of Vienne, in France, containing 460 square miles. It is divided into five cantons, and these again into forty-eight communes, the inhabitants of which amount to 35,000. The chief place, which gives its name to the arrondissement, is situated on the right bank of the Charente, in a fertile district. It contains 328 houses, and 1500 inhabitants. In the neighbourhood there are considerable quarries of marble. Long. 0. 9. E. Lat. 46. 10. N.