ARDRES, a French town, in the department of Pas de Calais, and arrondissement of St Omer, on a canal joining Calais and St Omer, to which it gives its name. The “Field of the Cloth of Gold,” where Henry VIII. of England and Francis I. of France tried to outdazzle each other in 1520, was in the immediate neighbourhood. The town contains several distilleries and breweries. Population, about 2200.