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    Le Prestre, seigneur de Vauban, later styling himself as the marquis de Vauban (baptised 15 May 1633 – 30 March 1707), commonly referred to as Vauban...
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    Jacques Anne Joseph Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban (10 March 1754, in Dijon – 20 April 1816) was a French general of the Ancien Régime. He took part in...
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    heart of Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633–1707); relocated by Napoleon from Bazoches, replaced in 1847 with a cenotaph by Antoine Étex 1847: Henri Gatien...
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    Protestant and Catholic, were in alliance against it. Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, France's leading military strategist, warned Louis in 1689 that...
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    Schutzenberger Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (Alsatian extraction) Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban Paul Verlaine, poet Zwentibold Alsace Duchy of Lorraine List of Strasbourg...
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    Toul (category Vauban fortifications in France)
    Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Louis XIV's military engineer. In 1698 he designed a new enclosure and work began in 1699-1700. Several of Vauban's fortifications...
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    Briançon (category Vauban fortifications in France)
    Hautes-Alpes department. These pieces of art were designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633–1707), a military engineer of King Louis XIV. The following...
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    Fortress of Luxembourg (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    renowned commander and military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. From 1684 to 1688, Vauban immediately started a massive re-building and expansion...
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    by the duc d'Enghien, eldest son of le Grand Condé, and French military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. The defenders were commanded by Vaudémont...
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  • Tuchman – historian Mikhail Tukhachevsky Matthew Uttley Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban Vegetius Julius von Verdy du Vernois – 19th-century general and theorist...
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    Les Fortifications; this became the dominant text of its era on military fortifications and significantly influenced Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban....
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    Château-Renault (1637–1716), Marshal of France in 1703 Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban (1633–1707), Marshal of France in 1703 Conrad, Marquis of Rosen...
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    Jacques-Noël Sané. French: "Vauban de la Marine", after Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban known for his breakthrough fortifications. Jaquin, p.45 Jaquin, p...
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    bastions, Fort Griffon) is the work of the military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. This group of buildings allows Besançon to appear on the UNESCO...
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    fortifications for the town were laid out by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, the king's engineer. Vauban's fortifications were built between 1689 and 1693....
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    Canal du Midi (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    king to assess the cost and feasibility of the project. Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban, the royal architect and engineer who made many improvements to the...
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    Soitoux [fr]; Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, by Vital-Dubray [fr] (copy); Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, by Gustave Crauck; Antoine Lavoisier, by Jacques-Léonard...
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    Verdun (category Vauban fortifications in France)
    constructed on the site of the Abbey of Saint Vanne. In 1670 Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban visited Verdun and drew up an ambitious scheme to fortify the whole...
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    century. The French engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban also devised an effective method to defeat them. Before Vauban, besiegers had driven a sap towards...
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    Vincent de Tinténiac, Paul Alexandre du Bois-Berthelot [fr] and Jacques Anne Joseph Le Prestre de Vauban, the great-grandnephew of Marshal Sébastien Le Prestre...
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    The famed engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban designed his intricate fortifications during Louis XIV's reign. Vauban, a genius at siege warfare, oversaw...
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    Siege of Landrecies (1794) (category Military history of Hauts-de-France)
    Spanish Netherlands at the Treaty of the Pyrenees of 1659. Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban then gave it a fortress built according to the latest military practice...
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  • Younger, Charles Davenant, Edmond Halley, Isaac Newton, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, and Jean Boisard. Cantillon's involvement in John Law's speculative...
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    Jesuit missionary active in China (b. 1654) March 30 – Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French noble and military engineer noted for designing fortifications...
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    France. Sébastien Le Prestre, seigneur de Vauban, marshal of France, general commissioner of the fortifications. Conrad de Rozen, comte de Bolweiller, marshal...
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  • Jesuit missionary active in China (b. 1654) March 30 – Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French noble and military engineer noted for designing fortifications...
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    directing the Spanish bombers belonged to the school of Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban (one of the greatest military engineers in history who flourished...
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  • March 30 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Łyszczyński, Polish atheist and philosopher (b. 1634) 1707 – Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French general and engineer (b. 1633) 1764 – Pietro Locatelli, Italian...
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    the french engineer Antoine de Ville Evans, David (2004), "Portugal - Cadogan guides", Reference to Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban participation in the...
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    Siege of Kehl (1796–1797) (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    These had been constructed by the fortress architect Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban in the seventeenth century. The crossings had been contested before:...
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