Duquesne

Duquesne, ABRAHAM, MARQUIS, French naval officer, was born at Dieppe in 1610, and distinguished himself in 1637-43 in the war with Spain. During Louis XIV.'s minority he entered the Swedish service, and rose to the rank of vice-admiral. Returning to France, he reduced to submission Bordeaux, which had declared for the Fronde. He was successful in several engagements with De Ruyter and Van Tromp in 1672-73, and defeated the united fleets of Spain and Holland off Sicily in 1676, in an action in which De Ruyter fell. On the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Duquesne was made the only Protestant excepted from the general decree of banishment. He died 2d February 1688. See Jal, Duquesne (1872); Laughton, Studies in Naval History (1887).