Duquesne received a personal exemption when Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, but his sons were banished. A newspaper account is offered cautiously as an explanation for why his heart was sent to Switzerland in a silver box after his death. The account connects that transfer with his exiled sons. The suggestion that he stayed in France to use his pension to support them is explicitly speculative. Personal protection for a valued admiral could therefore coexist with the exclusion of his family.
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Duquesne's personal exemption did not protect his family
Duquesne could remain in France while his sons were banished; accounts of his heart and pension offer uncertain details about that separation.