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Segur. The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922

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Segur. The Reader's Biographical Encyclopaedia. 1922 Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Bibliographic Record Hugh Chisholm, et al., eds.  The Reader’s Biographical Encyclopædia.  1922.
17,000 Articles from the Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th & 12th eds. Ségur Name of a French family, the first member of which to attain distinction was François de Ségur, better known as the seigneur de Sainte-Aulaye (d. c. 1605), who professed the reformed religion, and was closely associated with Henry IV., becoming in 1576 president of his council. Jean-Isaac, marquis de Ségur (d. 1707), fought in most of the campaigns of the France of his time, and remained loyal throughout the troubles of the Fronde. His son, Henri Joseph, marquis de Ségur (1661–1737), was lieutenant-general of Champagne and Brie, governor of Foix. In his youth he was the hero of an episode of gallantry with Anne of Beauvilliers, abbess of La Joye, which led to the suggestion that she was none other than the Portuguese nun of the famous Letters. His son, Henri François, comte de Ségur (1689–1751), was colonel at seventeen, when he succeeded to the command of the Ségur regiment which his father had raised. In 1718 he began a thirty years’ tenure of the lieutenant-generalship of Champagne and Brie. He had married in that year Angélique de Froissy, a natural daughter of the regent, Philip of Orléans, but the death of his father-in-law a few years later prevented his reaping special advancement from his marriage, though Mme. de Ségur belonged to the inner circle of Louis XV.’s intimates. Ségur served in Italy during the war of the Polish Succession under Marshal Villars, and became, in 1736, inspector-general of cavalry. In 1738 he was sent to Nancy as lieutenant-general under Marshal Belle-Isle, and to Bohemia in 1741 with the French troops allied with the Bavarians. But in September 1741 he was compelled by the imperial troops to surrender at Linz. In 1744 he was again sent to Bavaria, and defeated the Austrians at Lichtenau on the 28th of January 1745. He served throughout the Flemish campaigns of 1746 and 1747, and was commandant of Metz at the time of his death (June 18, 1751). His son, Philippe-Henri, marquis de Ségur (1724–1801), marshal of France, his grandson, Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur (1753–1830), and Louis Philippe’s son Philippe-Paul, comte de Ségur (1780–1873), are separately noticed.

1   Alexandre-Joseph-Pierre, vicomte de Ségur (1756–1805), second son of the marshal, quitted the army at the outbreak of the Revolution to devote himself to literature. He edited the Mémoires of Besenval in 1795 from the MS. which, originally in his possession, had been surreptitiously placed with the printer during Ségur’s imprisonment under the Terror. These were printed in 1804–1805. Between 1790 and 1800 he produced a number of pieces at the Comédie Française and the Opéra Comique. He published in 1802 a selection from his works entitled Comédies, chansons et proverbes, and in 1801 appeared Les Femmes, leurs mœurs … (3 vols.), which has often been reprinted, but is of doubtful authorship.

2   Octave-Henri Gabriel de Ségur (1779–1818), elder son of Louis Philippe de Ségur, served in the later Napoleonic campaigns, and remained in the army under the Restoration. He threw himself into the Seine on the 15th of August 1818. The domestic unhappiness that led to his suicide is retailed by the comtesse de Boigne in her Mémoires (vol. i., 1907). His elder son, Eugène, comte de Ségur, succeeded his grandfather in the peerage in 1830. He married Sophie Rostopchine (1799–1894), daughter of Count Feodor Rostopchine, governor of Moscow. The countess of Ségur wrote some famous books for children, the most familiar of which are perhaps the Malheurs de Sophie and the Mémoires d’un âne, and many tales in the Bibliothèque rose. Her letters to her daughter and son-in-law, the count and countess de Simard de Petray, were published in 1891, and those to her grandson in 1898.

3   Raymond Joseph Paul, comte de Ségur-d’Aguesseau (1803–1889), third son of Octave de Ségur, took his mother’s family name in addition to his own. He studied law at Aix and Paris. As procureur général of Amiens he gave in March 1830 a decision on the question of the electoral lists which pleased the liberal party, but late in the year, as substitute in the royal court of Paris, he ordered the suppression of certain liberal journals, and in other civil appointments was accused of reactionary administration. He gave his adhesion to Prince Louis Napoleon, and became a member of the consultative commission in 1851, and of the senate in 1852. After the fall of the empire he retired into private life.

4   Louis Gaston Adrien de Ségur (1820–1881), son of Eugène de Ségur and Sophie Rostopchine, became a prelate of the papal court, and canon-bishop of Saint-Denis. He was a champion of the ultra-montane party and wrote a number of Catholic works, collected in ten volumes (Paris, 1876–1877). His life was written by his brother Anatole, who edited two collections of his letters in 1882 and 1899.

5   Anatole Henri Philippe de Ségur (1823–1902), Gaston’s brother, became councillor of state in 1872, serving until 1879. His works include the life of his grandfather Count Rostopchine (1872), Fables (1879), Un Épisode de la Terreur (1864), Paul Marie Charles Bernard (1875).

6   His son, Pierre Marie Maurice Henri, marquis de Ségur (1853–1916), wrote a life (1895) of the marshal de Ségur, which was crowned by the French Academy. His book on Madame Geoffrin, Le Royaume de la rue Saint-Honoré (1897), also received a prize. His principal work is the three volumes devoted to Marshal Luxemburg—La Jeunesse du maréchal de Luxembourg, 1628–1668 (1900); Le Maréchal de Luxembourg et le prince d’Orange, 1668–1678 (1902); Le Tapissier de Notre-Dame. Dernières années du maréchal de Luxembourg, 1678–1695 (1904); Julie de Lespinasse (1905); English Transl., 1907; and Au couchant de la monarchie Louis XVI. et Turgot, 1774–1776 (Paris, 1910). He was elected to the French Academy in 1907. He died at Poissy on the 13th of August 1916.

7   There is much general information on the family of Ségur in A. de Ségur’s Le Maréchal de Ségur, 1724–1801 (Paris, 1895), and in L. P. de Ségur’s Recueil de famille (1826).

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