LA, a town of France, capital of a cognominal arrondissement in the department of Var, 23 miles E.N.E. of Draguignan. It occupies a highly picturesque situation on the southern declivity of a hill, facing the Mediterranean, from which it is about seven miles distant. The streets are narrow, steep, and winding, but the houses are generally well built. The climate is salubrious, and the town is well supplied with water from a rivulet which rises above it. It has a large Gothic church of ungainly appearance, three hospitals, town-hall, exchange, theatre, communal college, and public library. Next to Paris it carries on the largest manufactures of perfumery in France. The vicinity abounds in citrons, oranges, lemons, figs, and pomegranates, and in flowers used by the perfumers. Fine marble and alabaster are also found in the vicinity. Pop. (1851) 11,540.