an arrondissement of the department of the Meurthe, in France, extending over 418 square miles. It is divided into five cantons, and these into 116 communes, which have a population of 75,499 persons. The capital is the city of the same name situated on the river Saar; but it contained only 2340 inhabitants. There is a military bakehouse with eight ovens, which can make bread each day sufficient for an army of 40,000 men.