{{wikt | vavasseur}} '''Vavasseur''', a surname of French origin, once characterised a "vassal of a vassal", i.e., a sub-vassal - someone holding land not from the Crown directly but from a vassal of the Crown (cf. :fr:Vavasseur). Notable people with the surname include:
*Didier Vavasseur (born 1961), French sprint canoer *François Vavasseur (1605–1681), French Jesuit humanist and controversialist *Henry Vavasseur, British entrepreneur who discovered how to make desiccated coconut in 1888 *Josiah Vavasseur (1834–1908), English industrialist *Sophie Vavasseur (born 1992), Irish actress
==See also== *Vavasseur mounting, for artillery and machine guns *Vavasour (disambiguation) **Vavasour (surname)
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