ISSOUDUN, a town of central France, capital of an arron dissement in the department of Indre, on the right bank of the Theols, 17 m. N.E. of Chateauroux by rail. Pop. (1931) 10,368. Issoudun, in Latin Exoldunum or Uxellodunum, existed in and before Roman times. Louis XIV. rewarded its fidelity during the Fronde by the grant of several privileges. The church of St. Cyr has a fine east window, and the chapel of the Hotel Dieu is i6th century. Of the fortifications a town-gate (i6th century) and
the White Tower (12th century) survive. Issoudun is the seat of a sub-prefecture, and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce and a chamber of arts and manufactures. The indus tries, of which the most important is leather-dressing, also include malting and brewing and the manufacture of bristles for brushes and parchment, Trade is in wood, grain, and wine.