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unusual facts about Vauban


Canton of Marseille-Vauban

It is also composed of a part of the 8th municipal arrondissement situated north of an imaginary line between the end of the impasses du Roc-Fleuri, Tertian and des Colonies, rue de la Turbine (excluded), rue du Lycée-Périer, traverse Périer, boulevard Périer, rue Paradis, rue de Cluny, rue du Chalet, rue Florac, rue Daumier, avenue du Prado and rue Borde.


Ada Kaleh

The Austrians built a Vauban-type fort there to defend it from the Ottoman Empire, and that fort would remain a bone of contention for the two empires.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Tellier, Luc-Normand, Face aux Colbert : les Le Tellier, Vauban, Turgot ... et l'avènement du libéralisme, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1987, 816 pages.

Battle of Camaret

The cavalry regiments and dragoons were positioned at Landerneau and Quimper and, to enable the fast transmission of information, Vauban organised a communications code in the form of signals.

Camille le Tellier de Louvois

Luc-Normand Tellier, Face aux Colbert : les Le Tellier, Vauban, Turgot ... et l'avènement du libéralisme, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1987, 816 pages.

Canton of Marseille – Notre-Dame-du-Mont

It is composed of the part of the 5th municipal arrondissement of Marseille situated west of rue Auguste-Blanqui (included), rue Saint-Pierre (included), boulevard Jean-Moulin (excluded), boulevard Baille, rue du Berceau, avenue de Toulon and a part of the 6th municipal arrondissement not part of the canton of Marseille-Vauban.

Canton of Marseille – Saint-Giniez

It is composed of the part of the 8th arrondissement of Marseille not within the cantons of Marseille-Vauban and Marseille-La Pointe-Rouge.

Cherbourg Harbour

Exceeding Vauban's designs, he planned the construction of a 4 km long harbour wall between île Pelée and pointe de Querqueville.

Diên Khánh District

The Citadel was built by the French officer Olivier de Puymanel for Nguyễn Ánh in 1793 with an area of 36,000 square meters according to the Vauban military architecture which was popular in Western Europe in 17th - 18th centuries.

Doullens

the Citadelle, built by Vauban, which has often served as a state prison, and later, a reformatory for girls.

Europa Nostra

Belgrade and Petrovaradin (Serbia), 2007 – "The bastioned fortresses in the age of Vauban"

Jacques-Noël Sané

His designs were so successful that he was nicknamed "The Naval Vauban".

Mont-Dauphin

At the confluence of Durance and Guil rivers, overlooking the impressive canyon of the latter flowing down from Queyras valley, Mont-Dauphin is one of the many places fortified by Vauban in the second half of the 17th century.

Place des Victoires

Louis permanently abandoned Paris in 1682, and his imperial ambitions in Europe were deflated by subsequent wars; the Treaty of Ryswick of 1697 was termed "a humiliating disaster for the king" by the military architect Vauban.

Quảng Trị

It is an example of Vauban architecture and it later became the administrative head office of the Nguyễn Dynasty in Quảng Trị Province (1809 -1945).

Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban

At the age of seventeen Vauban joined the regiment of Condé in the war of the Fronde.


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