See also:COMTE DE See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS PHILIPPE See also:SEGUR (1753-1830)
, See also:French diplomatist and historian, son of Philippe See also:Henri, See also:marquis de See also:Segur, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the loth of See also:December 1753
.
He entered the See also:army in 1769, served in the See also:American See also:War of See also:Independence in 1781 as a See also:colonel under See also:Rochambeau
.
In 1784 he was sent as See also:minister plenipotentiary to St See also:Petersburg, where he was received into the intimacy of the empress See also:Catherine IL and wrote some comedies for her See also:theatre
.
At St Petersburg he concluded (II See also:January 1787) a commercial treaty which was exceedingly advantageous to See also:France, and returned to Paris in 1789
.
He took up a sympathetic attitude towards the Revolution at its outset and in 1791 was sent on a See also:mission to See also:Berlin, where he was badly received
.
After fighting a See also:duel he was forced to leave Berlin, and went into retirement until "Sol when, at See also:Bonaparte's instance, he was nominated by the See also:senate to the See also:Corps legislatif
.
Subsequently he became a member of the See also:council of See also:state, See also:grand See also:master of the ceremonies, and senator, 1813
.
In 1814 Segur voted for the deposition of See also:Napoleon and entered See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XVIII.'s Chamber of Peers
.
Deprived of his offices and functions in 1815 for joining Napoleon during the See also:Hundred Days, he was reinstated in 1819, supported the revolution of 183o, but died shortly afterwards in Paris on the 27th See also:August 1830
.
By his wife, Antoinette d'See also:Aguesseau, he had two sons, of whom See also:Count Philippe See also:Paul is separately noticed
.
Among his writings may be mentioned Histoire See also:des principaux evenements du regne de See also:Frederic-See also:Guillaume II (1800); Pensees politiques (Paris, 1795); Histoire de France (II vols., 1824-1834); Histoire des juifs (1827); Memoires (3 vols., 1824); and Conies (1809)
.
His fEuvres completes were published in 34 volumes in 1824 et seq
.
Seeduc de See also:Broglie, " Deux Frangais aux l:tats-Unis " in Melanges publics See also:par la Societe des Bibliophiles See also:francais (2nd See also:part, 1903); A
.
Cornereau, " La Mission du See also:comte de Segur dans la xviiie See also:division militaire," in the Memoires de la Societe bourguignonne de geographic et d'histoire (vol
.
17, 1901)
.
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