(the ancient Lectora), a town of France, capital of a cognominal arrondissement in the department of Gers, stands on the summit of a steep isolated rock, near the right bank of the Gers, 20 miles N. of Auch. The main street is wide, regular, and well built, but the others are irregular, dirty, and old-fashioned. The chief buildings are—a handsome Gothic church, built by the English, an hospital, which occupies the site of the ancient castle, and the old episcopal palace, now the town-hall. Lectoure carries on a considerable trade in cattle, wine, brandy, and agricultural produce, and has some manufactures of coarse woollens, serge, and leather. It was long possessed by the Counts of Armagnac, the last of whom having revolted against Louis XI., was besieged in the town, and surrendered conditionally. The count, however, was faithlessly murdered, and the inhabitants massacred. Pop. (1851) 6030.