Auxonne is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France.

Sébastien Le Prestre, seigneur de Vauban, later styling himself as the marquis de Vauban, commonly referred to as Vauban, 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.