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COMTE DE PHILIPPE See also: Louis Philippe, comte de
See also: Segur, was See also: born in See also: Paris on the 4th of See also: November 1780
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He enlisted in the cavalry in 1800, and forthwith obtained a commission
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He served with General See also: Macdonald in the See also: Grisons in 1800-18o1, and published an account of the See also: campaign in 1802
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By the influence of Colonel See also: Duroc (afterwards duc de Frioul) he was attached to the See also: personal staff of See also: Napoleon
.
He served through most of the important See also: campaigns of the first See also: empire, and was frequently employed on See also: diplomatic See also: missions
.
During the campaign in Poland in 1807 he was taken prisoner by the Russians, but was exchanged at the See also: peace of See also: Tilsit
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His brilliant conduct in the cavalry See also: charge at Somo Sierra on the 3oth of November 18o8 (see See also: PENINSULAR WAR) won him the grade of colonel, but his wounds compelled him to return to See also: France
.
As general of brigade he took See also: part in the See also: Russian campaign of 1812, and in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 he repeatedly distinguished himself, notably at See also: Hanau (See also: October 1813), and in a brilliant affair at See also: Reims (See also: March 1814)
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He remained in the army at the Restoration, but, having accepted a command from Napoleon during the
See also: Hundred Days, he was retired until 1818, and took no further active part in affairs until the revolution of 183o
.
During his retirement he wrote his Histoire de Napoleon et de la grande armee pendant l'annee 1812 (Paris, 2 vols., 1824), which ran through numerous See also: editions, and was translated into several See also: languages
.
The unfavourable portrait of Napoleon given in this See also: book provoked representations from General See also: Gourgaud, and eventually a duel, in which Segur was wounded
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On the establishment of the See also: July See also: monarchy he received, in 1831, the grade of See also: lieutenant-general and a See also: peerage
.
In 183o he was admitted to the French See also: Academy, and he became See also: grand See also: cross of the See also: Legion of Honour in 1847
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After the revolution of 1848 he lived in retirement
.
He died in Paris on the 25th of See also: February 1873
.
His See also: works include: Histoire de Russie et de See also: Pierre le Gland (1829); Histoire de See also: Charles VIII
.
(2 vols., 1834-1842), in continuation of the
See also: history of France begun by his See also: father; and the See also: posthumous Histoire et memoires (8 vols., 1873)
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See Un Aide-de-See also: camp de Napoleon (1800-1812), memoires du general comte de Segur, new edition by his See also: grandson Louis de Segur (3 vols., 1894–1895), of which an abridged See also: English version was published in 1895
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