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Claude Du Vall (or Duval) (1643 – 21 January 1670) was a French highwayman in Restoration England. He came from a family of decayed nobility, and worked in the service of exiled royalists who returned to England under King Charles II. Little else is known of his history.
Claude Duval (1860) di William Powell Frith. Claude Duval, o Du Vall (Domfront, 1643 – Tyburn, 21 giugno 1670), è stato un brigante francese diventato celebre per i modi galanti con cui interagiva nei confronti di chi derubava.
22 apr 2024 · Claude Duval (born 1643, Domfront, France—died Jan. 21, 1670, London) was a celebrated Norman-born highwayman of Restoration England, popularized as a gallant cavalier. Duval entered domestic service in Paris when he was 14 and made friends with the English exiles in Paris who were waiting for the Restoration; when Charles II ...
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20 gen 2022 · When he heard the voice calling on him to open the carriage door the man might have had mixed feelings. The French accent indicated he was about to be robbed by the great Claude Duval, archetypal dandy highwayman and embodiment of the freewheeling, flamboyant, morally-ambiguous English Restoration.
8 ott 2018 · Powell Frith, Claude Duval (1859), Manchester Art Gallery. The crime he is most famous for is when he tried to rob a couple and the woman challenged Du Val to a flageolet (a type of flute) and dancing contest. This incident amused Du Val very much and helped to reduce the husband’s payment owed to Du Val from £400 to £100.
21 gen 2010 · 1670: Claude Duval, gentleman highwayman. Posted on 21 January, 2010 by Headsman. It’s been 340 years since the immortal highwayman Claude Duval (or Du Val, or Du Vall) went to the Tyburn gallows and was turned off into legend as the ne plus ultra of English gentleman thieves.
Claude Du Vall (aka Du Val, Duval or Duvall) was a gallant and courteous rogue, probably the most dashing highwayman ever to haunt the roads of England. He was known as a “true gentleman of the road” and "an eternal feather in the cap of highway gentility." He was born the son of a miller in Normandy in 1643.
