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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Example Sentences

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

A few blocks away, tension was palpable on the Place Vauban, near the National Assembly, where hundreds of mostly young protesters had gathered.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2023

Irish Champion Hurdle winner State Man and stablemate Vauban are next in the betting for the Festival's leading trainer Willie Mullins.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2023

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

M. de Vauban, by whom they were directed, thought them his Master-piece.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II 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