# Vavasseur

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'''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](/source/%3Afr%3AVavasseur)). Notable people with the surname include:

*[Didier Vavasseur](/source/Didier_Vavasseur) (born 1961), French sprint canoer
*[François Vavasseur](/source/Fran%C3%A7ois_Vavasseur) (1605–1681), French Jesuit humanist and controversialist
*[Henry Vavasseur](/source/Henry_Vavasseur), British entrepreneur who discovered how to make desiccated [coconut](/source/coconut) in 1888
*[Josiah Vavasseur](/source/Josiah_Vavasseur) (1834–1908), English industrialist
*[Sophie Vavasseur](/source/Sophie_Vavasseur) (born 1992), Irish actress

==See also==
*[Vavasseur mounting](/source/Vavasseur_mounting), for artillery and machine guns
*[Vavasour (disambiguation)](/source/Vavasour_(disambiguation))
**[Vavasour (surname)](/source/Vavasour_(surname))

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