one of Caesar's great divisions of Gaul. It was not subdued until the reign of Augustus, who extended its limits to the Loire and Cevennes range. In the reign of Honorius it was conquered by the Visigoths, from whom it was wrested by Clovis. Thenceforth it was considered as part of France, until it fell by marriage into the hands of Henry II. of England. It was an apanage of the English monarchs, until Charles VII. finally united it to the French crown, by the capture of Bordeaux in 1452.