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Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban

1633 - 1707

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Sébastien Le Prestre, 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]), was a French military engineer and Marshal of France who worked under Louis XIV. He is generally considered the greatest engineer of his time, and one of the most important in European military history. His principles for fortifications were widely used for nearly 100 years, while aspects of his offensive tactics remained in use until the mid-twentieth century. He viewed civilian infrastructure as closely connected to military effectiveness and worked on many of France's major ports, as well as projects like the Canal de la Bruche, which remains in use today. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban has received more than 611,788 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 53 in 2019). Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban is the 10th most popular engineer, the 350th most popular biography from France (up from 383rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Engineer.

Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban was a French military engineer who is most famous for his work on fortifications. He wrote a book called "The Art of War" which is still used by military engineers today.

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Among engineers, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban ranks 10 out of 389. Before him are Zhuge Liang, Wernher von Braun, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, and Sergei Korolev. After him are Umberto Nobile, André Citroën, Otto Lilienthal, Alexei Kosygin, Leslie Groves, and Anatoly Dyatlov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1633, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban ranks 1. After him are James II of England, Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans, Abbas II of Persia, Emperor Go-Kōmyō, Kaya Sultan, Samuel Pepys, Bernardino Ramazzini, Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Yun Shouping, Willem van de Velde the Younger, and Arsenije III Čarnojević. Among people deceased in 1707, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban ranks 4. Before him are Dieterich Buxtehude, Aurangzeb, and Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan. After him are Ahmad Khani, Jean Mabillon, Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Shitao, Christoph Cellarius, Johann Patkul, Willem van de Velde the Younger, and Johann Christoph Denner.

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In France

Among people born in France, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban ranks 350 out of 6,770. Before him are Raymond Kopa (1931), Fernand Braudel (1902), Paul Barras (1755), Antonin Artaud (1896), Françoise Sagan (1935), and Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930). After him are Brigitte Macron (1953), Philippe Noiret (1930), Louis Renault (1843), Olivier Messiaen (1908), Gérard Philipe (1922), and Robert Guiscard (1016).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban ranks 3. Before him are Gustave Eiffel (1832), and Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796). After him are André Citroën (1878), Villard de Honnecourt (1200), Paul Cornu (1881), Marcel Dassault (1892), Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Marcel Renault (1872), Henri Farman (1874), André Courrèges (1923), and Henry Darcy (1803).

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