Claude Monet | Claude Debussy | Claude Lorrain | Claude François | Jean-Claude Van Damme | Franche-Comté | Claude Lévi-Strauss | Claude Royet-Journoud | Claude Chabrol | Jean-Claude Carrière | comte | Claude Vivier | Claude Shannon | Claude Berri | Jean-Claude Colin | Claude Rains | Comte de Lautréamont | Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne | Christo and Jeanne-Claude | Auguste Comte | Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse | Jean-Claude Gérard | Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau | Claude Lelouch | Claude Jade | Claude Garamond | Claude Bolling | Claude Auchinleck | Jean-Claude Duvalier | Jean-Baptiste Drouet, Comte d'Erlon |
He allied with the cardinal de Retz during the Fronde, and was eventually imprisoned in the Bastille, and then in Vincennes.
Poe scholar Richard P. Benton has stated his belief that "Poe's protagonist is an Englished version of the French Montrésor" and has argued forcefully that Poe's model for Montresor "was Claude de Bourdeille, Count of Montrésor, the 17th-century political conspirator in the entourage of King Louis XIII's weak-willed brother, Gaston d'Orléans".