Claude Duval was a French-born gentleman highwayman in post-Restoration Britain. Duval was born in Domfront, Normandy, France in 1643 to a poor family. His origin and parentage is in dispute. At the age of 14 he was sent to Paris where he worked as a domestic servant. He later became a stable boy for a group of English royalists and moved to England in the time of English Restoration as a footman of the Duke of Richmond and rented a house in Wokingham. Wikipedia
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