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Vauban (disambiguation)

Vauban may refer to:

  • Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban, a French military engineer
  • Vauban (train), an express train linking Belgium and Switzerland
  • Vauban, Freiburg, a neighbourhood of Freiburg, Germany
  • Lycée Vauban (Luxembourg), a secondary school in Luxembourg
  • Vauban, Saône-et-Loire, a commune in the Saône-et-Loire département
  • TSS Vauban, a Lamport & Holt Line steamship (built 1912)
Vauban (train)

The Vauban is an express train that links Brussels Midi/Zuid in Brussels, Belgium, with Switzerland, and previously also extended to Italy. Introduced in 1988, it is operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB), the Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL), the SNCF, the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS), and previously also the Italian State Railways (FS).

The train is named after Sébastien Le Prestre (1633–1707), Seigneur de Vauban and later Marquis de Vauban (and commonly referred to as Vauban), who was a Marshal of France and the foremost military engineer of his age.

, the Vauban was one of two EuroCity train-pairs running daily between Brussels and Basel, Switzerland; the other was the EC Iris. <!--