GAILLAC  , a

town of south-western France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Tarn, on the right bank of the Tarn, 15 M . W. of Albi on the railway from that city to Toulouse . Pop . (1906) town, 5388; commune, 7535 . The churches of St Michel and St Pierre, both dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, have little architectural importance . There are some interesting houses, one of which, the Maison Yversen, of the Renaissance, is remarkable for the rich carving of its doors . The public institutions include the sub-prefecture, a tribunal of first instance, and a communal college . Its industries include the manufacture of lime and wooden shoes, while dyeing, wood-sawing and flour-milling are also carried cn; it has a consider-able trade in grain, flour, vegetables, dried plams, anise, coriander, &c,, and in wine, the white and red wines of the arrondissement having a high reputation . Gaillac grew up round the Benedictine abbey of'St Michel, founded in the loth century .