Fougères

Fougères, a town in the French department of Ille-et-Vilaine, 23 miles by rail N. of Vitré (on the main line from Paris to Brest). It has a picturesque old castle, a college, and considerable manufactures of bootmakers' materials, sailcloth, and leather, besides granite-quarries. Here the Vendean royalists defeated the republicans in November 1793. Pop. (1872) 10,599; (1891) 17,381.