Vauquois

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{{Infobox French commune

|name = Vauquois

|commune status = Commune

|image = Vauquois La mairie.JPG

|caption = The town hall in Vauquois

|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Vauquois (Meuse).svg

|arrondissement = Verdun

|canton = Clermont-en-Argonne

|INSEE = 55536

|postal code = 55270

|mayor = Jean-Pierre Delandre{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=13 September 2022|language=fr}}

|term = 2020–2026

|intercommunality = Argonne-Meuse

|coordinates = {{coord|49.2039|5.0733|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|elevation m = 318

|elevation min m = 184

|elevation max m = 290

|area km2 = 8.14

|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}

|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}

|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}

}}

Vauquois ({{IPA|fr|vokwa}}) is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

During World War 1, Vauquois was the site of violent mine warfare,{{cite web |title=The War Underground |url=http://www.webmatters.net/france/ww1_vauquois.htm |website=First World War: Vauquois |publisher=webmatters.net |access-date=4 December 2019}} also in connection with the Battle of Verdun (1916). From 1915 to 1918, French and German tunneling units fired 519 separate mines at Vauquois, and the German gallery network beneath the village hill (the Butte de Vauquois) grew to a length of {{convert|17|km|mi|}}. Vauquois was destroyed and many huge craters and dugouts remain.

The French papyrologist Jean Maspero (1885–1915) died in Vauquois, as did biologist Auguste Chaillou.