an arrondissement of the department of the Gironde, in France, 624 square miles in extent. It is divided into eight cantons, and these into 90 communes, containing 69,500 inhabitants. The capital, a city of that name, is built on two hills, at the bases of which flows the river Baudial. It contains 450 houses, and 3160 inhabitants; and is celebrated for the excellent tanned and curried leather it produces.