Vaucluse (valley shut in) (235), department in the SE. of France; chief industries agriculture, silk-weaving, pottery, &c., and with a village of the name, 19 m. E. of Avignon, famous for its fountain and as the retreat of Petrarch for 16 years.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Vauban, Sebastien le Prestre de * Vaud