St., an arrondissement of the department of the Loire, in France, extending over 450 square miles. It is divided into nine cantons and seventy-six communes, and contains 107,506 inhabitants. The capital is the city of the same name, situated on the river Furand. It is a large manufacturing place for silk ribbons and other silk goods, and also for ironmongery, as well as for muskets, pistols, swords, and other weapons. It contains 16,295 inhabitants. In the neighbourhood is abundance of fossil coal. Long. 4. 15. E. Lat. 45. 22. N.