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CLAUDE DUVAL (1643–1670)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 737 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLAUDE DUVAL (1643–1670)  , a famous highwayman, was born at
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Domfront,
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Normandy, in 1643 . Having entered domestic service in Paris, he came to England at the time of the Restoration in attendance on the duke of Richmond, and soon became a highwayman notorious for the daring of his robberies no less than for his gallantry to ladies . Large rewards were offered for his capture, and he was at one time compelled to seek
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refuge in France . In the end he was captured in
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London, and hanged at
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Tyburn on the 21st of
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January 1670 . His
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body was buried in the centre aisle of Covent Garden church, under a stone with the following epitaph: " Here lies Du Vail: Reader if male thou
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art, Look to thy purse: if
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female to thy heart." A full account of his adventures, ascribed to William Pope, was reprinted in the Harleian
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Miscellany, and
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Samuel Butler published a satirical ode To the Happy Memory of the Most Renowned Du Val .

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I have a painting signed in pencil by "Claude Duval". Does anyone know if he was also a painter?
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