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DUVAL, CLAUDE (1643–1670)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 737 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUVAL, See also:CLAUDE (1643–1670) , a famous highwayman, was See also:born at See also:Domfront, See also:Normandy, in 1643. Having entered domestic service in See also:Paris, he came to See also:England at the See also:time of the Restoration in attendance on the See also:duke of See also: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 See also:capture, and he was at one time compelled to seek See also:refuge in See also:France. In the end he was captured in See also:London, and hanged at See also:Tyburn on the 21st of See also:January 1670. His See also:body was buried in the centre See also:aisle of Covent See also:Garden See also:church, under a See also:stone with the following See also:epitaph: " Here lies Du Vail: Reader if male See also:thou See also:art, Look to thy See also:purse: if See also:female to thy See also:heart." A full See also:account of his adventures, ascribed to See also:William See also:Pope, was reprinted in the Harleian See also:Miscellany, and See also:Samuel See also:Butler published a satirical See also:ode To the Happy Memory of the Most Renowned Du Val.

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