Claude Duval

1643 (age 27)

Domfront, Orne, Normandy, France

Having entered domestic service in Paris, Duval came to England at the time of the Restoration in attendance on the duke of Richmond, and soon became a highwayman. Large rewards were offered for his capture, and he was at one time compelled to seek refuge in France. In the end he was captured in London, and hanged at Tyburn in 1670. His body was buried in the centre aisle of Covent Garden church, under a stone with the following epitaph: "Here lies Du Vall: Reader, if male thou art, Look to thy purse: if female to thy heart. " A full account of his adventures, ascribed to William Pope, was reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany, and Samuel Butler published a satirical ode To the Happy Memory of the Most Renowned Du Val.

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Claude Duvall was born at Domfront, Normandy in 1643 to a noble family stripped of title and land.

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Having entered domestic service in Paris, Duval came to England at the time of the Restoration in attendance on the duke of Richmond, and soon became a highwayman. Large rewards were offered for his capture, and he was at one time compelled to seek refuge in France.

In the end he was captured in London, and hanged at Tyburn in 1670. His body was buried in the centre aisle of Covent Garden church, under a stone with the following epitaph: "Here lies Du Vall: Reader, if male thou art, Look to thy purse: if female to thy heart. "

A full account of his adventures, ascribed to William Pope, was reprinted in the Harleian Miscellany, and Samuel Butler published a satirical ode To the Happy Memory of the Most Renowned Du Val.

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Claude Duvall was notorious for the daring of his robberies and for his gallantry to ladies.

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