a town of France, capital of a cognominal arrondissement, department of Indre-et-Loire, pleasantly situated on the right bank of the Vienne, 28 miles S.W. of Tours. Pop. (1851) 6675. It has a tribunal of primary instance, a communal college, and some trade in grain, dried fruits, wine, brandy, &c. Here Henry II. of England died in 1189; and the ruins of the castle where Charles VII. of France resided after the occupation of Paris by the English, and where Joan of Arc presented herself to him, are still seen. Rabelais was born at a hamlet in the vicinity in 1483.