• Thumbnail for Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban
    seigneur de Vauban, later styling himself as the marquis de Vauban (baptised 15 May 1633 – 30 March 1707), commonly referred to as Vauban (French: [vobɑ̃])...
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    The Fortifications of Vauban is a UNESCO World Heritage Site made up of 12 groups of fortified buildings and sites along the borders of France. They were...
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    Vauban (German pronunciation: [voˈbãː]) is a neighbourhood (Stadtteil) to the south of the town centre in Freiburg, Germany. It was built as "a sustainable...
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  • Paris, the Jackal duplicates a key to a sixth-floor flat overlooking the Place du 18 juin 1940. The OAS relocate to Rome. The French Action Service kidnap...
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    Saint-Léger-Vauban (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ leʒe vobɑ̃]) is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. It...
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  • Thumbnail for Simone Veil
    second floor of 11, Place Vauban [fr] in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, on the rive gauche. In 1983 she instigated the Club Vauban, a circle of politicians...
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    chanting "Macron démission" ("Macron step down"). In the evening, in Place Vauban, protesters gathered, chanting "Macron resign!" and "Aux armes" (Take...
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  • Thumbnail for Vauban-class ironclad
    The Vauban class, sometimes referred to as the Duguesclin class, was a pair of two ironclad barbette ships built for the French Navy in the late 1870s...
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    Gallieni (1926) in Place Vauban in the XVIIieme district of Paris Monument to the Marshal Marie Émile Fayolle (1935) in Place Vauban in the XVIIieme district...
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    Exposition internationale, the monument was moved to the place Vauban. Also in the place Vauban is the monument to another "Maréchal" of France who distinguished...
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