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JOSEPH ALEXANDRE PIERRE

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JOSEPH See also:ALEXANDRE See also:PIERRE , Vicomte de See also:Segur (1756-1805), second son of the See also:marshal, quitted the See also:army at the outbreak of the Revolution to devote himself to literature. He edited the Memoires of Besenval in 1795 from the MS. which, originally in his See also:possession, had been surreptitiously placed with the printer during Segur's imprisonment under the Terror. These were printed in 1804-1805. Between 1790 and "Soo he produced a number of pieces at the Comedie Francaise and the See also:Opera Comique. He published in 1802 a selection from his See also:works entitled Comedies, chansons et proverbes, and in 18or appeared See also:Les Femmes, leurs mceurs . . . (3 vols.), which has often been reprinted, but is of doubtful authorship. See also:OCTAVE-See also:HENRI See also:GABRIEL DE SEGUR (1778-1818), See also:elder son of See also:Louis Philippe de Segur, served in the later See also:Napoleonic See also:campaigns, and remained in the army under the Restoration. He threw himself into the See also:Seine on the 15th of See also:August ,818. The domestic unhappiness that led to his See also:suicide is retailed by the comtesse de See also:Boigne in her Memoires (vol. i., 1907). His elder son, See also:EUGENE, See also:comte de Segur, succeeded his grandfather in the See also:peerage in 1830. He married Sophie Rostopchine (1799-1894), daughter of See also:Count Feodor Rostopchine, See also:governor of See also:Moscow.

The countess of Segur wrote some famous books for See also:

children, the most See also:familiar of which are perhaps the Malheurs de Sophie and the Memoires d'un dne, and many tales in the Bibliotheque See also:rose. Her letters to her daughter and son-in-See also:law, the count and countess de Simard de Petray, were published in 1891, and those to her See also:grandson in 1898.

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