BEAUGENCY, town of France, department of Loiret, 16m. S.W. of Orleans on the Orleans railway. Pop. (1931), 2,907. It is at the foot of vine-clad hills on the right bank of the Loire, crossed by a bridge of 26 arches dating in part from the 13th century. The lords of Beaugency were powerful from the 11th to the 13th centuries, when the fief was sold to the Crown, after wards passing to the house of Orleans. Joan of Arc defeated the English here in 1429. In 1567 the town was sacked and burned by the Protestants. In Dec. 187o the German army defeated the French army of the Loire near the river north-west of Beaugency. The chief buildings are the château (mainly 13th century) with a massive (11th century) donjon, and the abbey-church of Notre Dame, Romanesque but frequently restored. Portions of the Benedictine abbey, to which this church belonged, remain. The hotel-de-ville, with a decorated Renaissance facade, the church of St. Etienne (pure Romanesque), and several old houses are of interest. The town carries on trade in grain, and has flour mills.