Vauban

American  

[voh-bahn] / voʊˈbɑ̃ /

noun

1. Sébastien le Prestre de 1633–1707, French military engineer and marshal.

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Vauban British  

/ vobɑ̃ /

noun

1. Sébastien Le Prestre de (sebastjɛ̃ lə prɛtrə də). 1633–1707, French military engineer and marshal, who greatly developed the science of fortification and devised novel siege tactics using a series of parallel trenches

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The Spanish telecommunications infrastructure company said Friday that its French subsidiary entered into an agreement with digital platform Vauban Infra Fibre to sell data-center operator Towerlink France for 391 million euros.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025

The first event is planned for Place Vauban close to the Eiffel Tower on Sunday.

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2025

Steeped in absurdist ideas, the existentialist comedy presents the actress as Caterine Vauban, a sort of antagonist whose nihilistic views on life go against widespread optimism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2021

Shipping containers have been transformed into student housing, and old industrial warehouses have morphed into a sleek shopping mall called the Docks Vauban.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2017

He order'd M. de Vauban to draw a Model of it, and to compute the Cost, which he found would amount to several Millions of Livres.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von