Angers (anc. Juliomagus, in the territory of the Andecavi or Andegavi), an old city of France, capital of the department of Maine-et-Loire, situated on the Mayenne, 4 m. from its junction with the Loire, 161 m. S. W. of Paris, on the line of the Tours and Nantes railway; pop. in 1866, 54,701. It has a college and seminary, a government sail-cloth manufactory, and various manufactories of linen, woollen, cotton, and silk stuffs; also tanneries and sugar and wax refineries; and contains the mother house of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. In the vicinity are extensive slate quarries. Its chief curiosities are the ruins of a castle of the old dukes of Anjou, a cathedral containing the monument of Margaret of Anjou, remains of a Roman aqueduct, and a museum with 600 pictures. It has a library, a botanical garden, and a school of arts and trades. The university. founded in 1246, and once among the most famous schools of learning in Europe, and the royal academy of belles-lettres, established by Louis XIV. in 1685, were destroyed during the revolution. In 1585 the castle was surprised by the Huguenots, and in 1703 the city was besieged by the Vendeans, when the inhabitants endured great sufferings. Lord Chatham and the duke of Wellington studied here at a military school.

David the sculptor was born here.