Antoine-Louis Séguier

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Antoine-Louis Séguier (1726–1792)

Antoine-Louis Séguier (born December 1, 1726 in Paris , † January 26, 1792 in Tournai ) was a French lawyer and politician.

Live and act

Séguier was married to Marguerite Henriette Vassal (* 1740). The couple had two children Antoine Jean Armand Mathieu Séguier, Baron de l'Empire (1768–1848) and Armand Louis Maurice Séguier (1770–1831).

In 1748 he was appointed Avocat du roi and in 1751 Advocate General of the Grand Council ( Avocat général au Grand Conseil ). In 1755 he was appointed to the Parlements of Paris in 1755. Under the protection of Louis XV. In 1757 he was elected a member of the Académie française . All he left behind was a few speeches, memoirs, and indictments.

Séguier was an opponent of the Enlightenment philosophers , whom he describes as "an ungodly and daring sect", and he denounced their "false wisdom". The work The System of Nature by Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach was a work outlawed by the authorities. Circles of the French clergy obtained a hearing before the parliament in Paris, before whose plenary session the Prosecutor General Séguier gave an indictment speech. As a result, the book was ceremoniously burned on August 18, 1770.

In 1772 he became a member of the Catholic Confrerie des Pénitents blancs de Montpellier . He emigrated in the early days of the French Revolution around 1790 and died in Tournai in what is now Belgium in 1792, where he was buried in the church of Saint-Jacques de Tournai .

Works

  • Discours de reception. Éloge de Fontenelle. March 31, 1757.
  • Response au discours de reception de Chamfort. July 19, 1781.

literature

  • Beaurepaire Pierre-Yves: La France des Lumières 1715–1789. Histoire de France. Belin, (2011), ISBN 978-2-7011-3365-2 , p. 657
  • Dena Goodman: The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment. Cornell Univ. Press (1996) ISBN 0-8014-8174-0 , p. 230

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family genealogy


personal data
SURNAME Séguier, Antoine-Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris ,
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1792
Place of death Tournai