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Vauban — Louis XIV’s military engineer, builder of the fortresses
A penniless cadet who passed from the Fronde’s camp into the king’s service, he fortified the kingdom’s borders for over fifty years and made siegecraft a science. He ended a marshal, and in disfavour for having written that taxation should fall on all. (Editorial synthesis)
Recorded office of Vauban: Marshalcy of France (from 1703 to 30 March 1707, his death). (source: Ministère des Armées)
Vauban was born in May 1633. (source: Ministère des Armées)
Vauban was born in Saint-Léger-de-Foucheret. (source: Larousse)
Vauban died on 30 March 1707. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Vauban died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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