a town of France, capital of an arrondissement of the same name, in the department of Saône-et-Loire, 30 miles W.N.W. of Mâcon. It has tribunals of primary instance and commerce, agricultural society, communal college, public library, manufactories of pottery ware, iron forges, and a considerable trade in corn, wine, cattle, and timber. It was the capital of Charolais, an old division of France which gave the title of Count to the eldest son of the Duke of Burgundy. The ruins of the count's castle occupy the summit of a hill in the immediate vicinity. Pop. (1851) 3427.