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Birth Name: Jean-David Nau
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France
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Jean-David Nau (c. 1635 – c. 1668), better known as François l'Olonnais, was a French pirate, active in the Caribbean during the 1660s.
L’Olonnais was one of many buccaneers — a cross between state-sponsored privateers and outright outlaws — who plied the Caribbean Sea in the mid to late 1600s.
L’Olonnais is believed to have begun raiding Spanish ships and coastal settlements — and cultivating a reputation for excessive cruelty — soon after arriving in the Caribbean as an indentured servant.
Seventeenth-century pirate historian Alexander Exquemelin wrote that L’Olonnais would hack his victims to piec
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