an arrondissement of the department of the Charente, in France, extending over 495 square miles. It contains six cantons, divided into seventy communes, with 60,525 inhabitants. The chief place, a city of the same name, situated on the right bank of the Vienne, is a town of some trade in cattle and corn, with 357 houses and 2263 inhabitants. Long. 0. 43. E. Lat. 45. 55. N.