CHATEAUROUX, a town of central France, capital of the department of Indre, situated on the left bank of the Indre, 88 m. S. of Orleans on the main line of the Orleans railway. Pop. (1931) 23,619. The old town, close to the river, forms a nucleus round which a newer and more extensive quarter, bordered by boule vards, has grown up; the suburbs of St. Christophe and Deols (q.v.) lie on the right bank of the river. Chateauroux owes its name and origin to the castle founded about the middle of the loth century by Raoul, prince of Deols, which later passed to Henry II. of England, falling eventually to the Conde family (1612). The present Château-Raoul dates from the 14th and 15th centuries and forms part of a charming river-side landscape. The old Eglise des Cordeliers (13th century) contains a museum and a library with the oldest extant ms. of the "Chanson de Roland." The modern church of St. Andre is very tastefully planned in the Gothic style. Chateauroux is the seat of a prefect and of a court of assizes. It has tribunals of first instance and of commerce and a board of trade-arbitrators and a chamber of commerce. The manufacture of textiles and machinery are actively carried on and there is a state tobacco factory.