Figeac, a town of France, in the department of Lot, on the railway from Perigueux to Ro-dez, in a deep valley of the Cele or Selle, an affluent of the Lot," 30 m. N. E. of Cahors; pop. in 1866, 7,610. It has a communal college, a library, a chamber of agriculture, a magnificent bridge, a railway tunnel 4,100 ft. long, manufactures of linen and cotton fabrics, dyeing houses, tanneries, etc, and some trade in wine and cattle. It is supposed to owe its origin to a Benedictine abbey, founded in 755 by Pepin the Short. It is the birthplace of the Champollions, to the younger of whom a statue has been erected.