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Claude Duval

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French highwayman

FranceLived 1643 to 1670 · aged 27
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Claude Du Vall (or Duval) (c. 1643 - 21 January 1670) was a French highwayman in Restoration England. He worked in the service of exiled royalists who returned to England under King Charles II. Little else is known of his history.

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Claude Du Vall (or Duval) (c. 1643 - 21 January 1670) was a French highwayman in Restoration England. He worked in the service of exiled royalists who returned to England under King Charles II. Little else is known of his history. According to popular legend, he abhorred violence, showing courtesy to his victims and chivalry to their womenfolk, thus spawning the myth of the romantic highwayman, as taken up by many novelists and playwrights.

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France
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Lived 1643 to 1670 · aged 27
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