books.google.co.uk - Vauban was the foremost military engineer of France during the period of its centralisation and wars of expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries. His influence persisted long after Waterloo, and his name has become synonymous with the science of the construction, defence and attack of bastioned fortresses....http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Vauban_Fortifications_of_France.html?id=eH1NtNGWQZ8C&q=Louis+XIV&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Vauban Fortifications of France
