a town of France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine, at the foot of a hill on the Vilaine, 39 miles S.S.W. of Rennes. It is well built, and contains a fine Gothic church, formerly attached to an abbey, with a much-admired apse. The abbey buildings are now occupied by a college. Redon is favourably situated for commerce, as the Vilaine is navigable, and the two branches of the canal between Nantes and Brest unite here. Ship-building and the making of serge are carried on here; and there are large slate quarries in the vicinity. The chief articles of trade are—colonial produce, slates, iron, lead, timber, pitch, tar, wine, brandy, butter, salt, hemp, flax, sail-cloth, leather, &c. Pop. (1856) 4847.