the capital of the department of Indre, France, is situated in a fine plain on the left bank of the Indre, 63 miles S.E. of Tours. It is the seat of a court of assize, tribunals of primary instance and commerce, and has a castle, now used as the town-hall, a society of arts and agriculture, communal college, theatre, and public library. It is ill-built, with narrow filthy streets. The principal manufacture is woollens, in which a great part of its inhabitants are employed; and it has an active trade in woollen yarn, leather, iron, grain, cattle, &c. Pop. 14,276.