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The Vaucluse ( ; in classical norm or Vau-Cluso in Mistralian norm) is a department in the southeast of France, named after the famous spring, the Fontaine-de-Vaucluse. The name Vaucluse derives from the Latin Vallis Clausa (closed valley) as the valley here ends in a cliff face from which emanates a spring whose origin is so far in and so deep that it remains to be defined.
Vaucluse is a département in the south of France.
Vaucluse may also refer to:
- Vaucluse, Doubs, a commune of the Doubs département in France
- Vaucluse (monastery), a monastery by the River Ain in Jura, France
- Vaucluse, New South Wales, a suburb of the city of Sydney, Australia
- Vaucluse, South Carolina, a town in Aiken County, United States
- Vaucluse, Virginia, a town in Frederick County, United States
- Vaucluse, Pleasants County, West Virginia
- Vaucluse (plantation), a plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States
- Vaucluse House, in Sydney
- Vaucluse Mountains, in France
- Vaucluse Shores, Virginia
- Vaucluse College
- Vaucluse High School
- Vaucluse Public School
Vaucluse was a villa in Fairfax County, Virginia, three miles (5 km) from Alexandria and from Washington, D.C., on a hill near the Virginia Theological Seminary, that was owned first by Dr. James Craik, and later by the Fairfax family, the first being Thomas Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
Vaucluse is a historic plantation house located near Bridgetown, Northampton County, Virginia. It is a complex, two-story, ell-shaped brick and frame structure with a gable roof. Attached to the house is a 1 1/2-story quarter kitchen with brick ends. The brickended section of the house was built about 1784, with the addition to the house added in 1829. The annex connecting the house with the old kitchen was probably added in 1889. It was the home of Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur (1790-1844) who died in the USS Princeton disaster of 1844. His brother U.S. Navy Commander George P. Upshur (1799-1852), owned nearby Caserta from 1836 to 1847.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.