Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban conference

Abstract

On 22-23 November 2007 Malta joined those European countries who throughout the year commemorated the trecentennary of the death of Sebastien Le Prestre De Vauban in 1707. To mark this occasion, a two-day conference was organjsed by the Embassy of France in Malta and the International institute for Baroque Studies of the University of Malta, in collaboration with the Ministry for Resources and Infrastructure, the Malta Tourism Authority and the Kamra tal-Periti, together with a number of other entities which supported this event. The venue was the Phoenicia Hotel which is interposed between the Valletta and Floriana landfront fortifications brought to perfection by the 1715 French military mission to Malta, working on the guidelines inherited from Vauban.