See also:COMTE DE PHILIPPE See also:PAUL See also:SEGUR (1780-1873)
, See also:French See also:general and historian, son of 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:comte de See also:Segur, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 4th of See also:November 1780
.
He enlisted in the See also:cavalry in 1800, and forthwith obtained a See also:commission
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He served with General See also:Macdonald in the See also:Grisons in 1800-18o1, and published an See also:account of the See also:campaign in 1802
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By the See also:influence of See also:Colonel See also:Duroc (afterwards duc de Frioul) he was attached to the See also:personal See also:staff of See also:Napoleon
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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
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During the campaign in See also: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 See also:WAR) won him the grade of colonel, but his wounds compelled him to return to See also:France
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As general of See also: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 See also: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
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During his retirement he wrote his Histoire de Napoleon et de la grande armee See also:pendant l'annee 1812 (Paris, 2 vols., 1824), which ran through numerous See also:editions, and was translated into several See also:languages
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The unfavourable portrait of Napoleon given in this See also:book provoked representations from General See also:Gourgaud, and eventually a See also:duel, in which Segur was wounded
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On the See also: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
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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 See also:Honour in 1847
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After the revolution of 1848 he lived in retirement
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He died in Paris on the 25th of See also:February 1873
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His See also:works include: Histoire de Russie et de See also:Pierre le Gland (1829); Histoire de See also:Charles VIII
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(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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