Louis-Philippe de Ségur
Louis Philippe de Ségur (born December 10, 1753 in Paris , † August 27, 1830 there ) was a French diplomat and writer .
De Ségur came from the family of the Counts of Ségur and was a son of Marshal of France Philippe-Henri de Ségur .
At the age of 16, de Ségur joined the army in 1769. The high point of his military career was his participation as a colonel in the American Revolutionary War . In 1783 he represented his home country in Saint Petersburg at the court of Tsarina Catherine II as envoy . When the revolution broke out in France in 1789 , he returned to Paris.
There he was elected to the National Assembly at the end of the same year . The reign of terror of the Welfare Committee escaped de Segur, because it already from autumn 1792 in Berlin by the Prussian king at the court of Frederick William II. Acted as ambassador of his country. His military rank at this time was Maréchal de camp .
After the execution of the French King Louis XVI. on January 21, 1793 de Ségur resigned from all his political offices and retired to his estates in Châtenay near Sceaux ( department of Hauts-de-Seine ). When the consulate was established at the end of 1799, de Ségur was appointed "Council of State" at the request of Napoleon Bonaparte and as such he was also a member of the government.
De Ségur was married to Charlotte d'Aguesseau. With her he had a daughter and three sons, including the future General Philippe-Paul de Ségur .
In 1803 the Institut de France accepted him as a member and the Académie française accepted him as the successor to the late Gabriel-Henri Gaillard (1726-1806) in their ranks (armchair 22). Napoleon personally raised him to the nobility (count). In 1813 de Ségur was appointed senator . His appointment as "Chief Ceremony Master" was not as an office, but more as an honorary title. During the restoration , King Louis XVIII. de Ségur the peerage . But when he became a partisan of Napoleon again during the rule of the Hundred Days , he lost this office and only got it back in 1818.
Louis-Philippe de Ségur died in Paris on August 27, 1830 at the age of 76.
Works (selection)
- Théâtre de l'hermitage . Paris 1798 (2 vol.).
- Tableau historique et politique de l'Europe de 1786–96. Contenant l'histoire de Frédéric-Guillaume II. 5th edition Paris 1828 (3 vols.).
- Mémoires . Paris 1859 (2 vol.).
Web links
- Works by and about Louis-Philippe de Ségur in the German Digital Library
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ségur, Louis-Philippe de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ségur, Louis Philippe de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French diplomat and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1753 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 27, 1830 |
| Place of death | Paris |