Les, an arrondissement of the department of Vendée, in France. It extends over seven hundred and thirty-two and a half square miles, and comprehends eleven cantons, divided into seventy-nine communes, with 98,508 inhabitants in 1836. The capital is the city of the same name, situated at the termination of a sandy plain on the sea-shore, and only connected by a strip of land with the continent. It has a small harbour fit for vessels of not more than a hundred and fifty tons. It consists of four long parallel streets, with 4778 inhabitants, who carry on the fisheries, and deal in corn, cattle, and salt, which last is made by the sun on the marshes. Long. 1. 53. 3. W. Lat. 46. 29. 50. N.