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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 584 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEGUR , the name of a See also:

French See also:family, the first member of which to attain distinction was See also:FRANCOIS DE SEGUR, better known as the seigneur de Sainte-Aulaye (d. c. 16o5), who professed the reformed See also:religion, and was closely associated with See also:Henry IV., becoming in 1576 See also:president of his See also:council. See also:Jean-See also:Isaac, See also:marquis de Segur (d. 1707), fought in most of the See also:campaigns of the See also:France of his See also:time, and remained loyal throughout the troubles of the See also:Fronde. His son, See also:HENRI See also:JOSEPH, marquis de Segur(1661-1737),was See also:lieutenant-See also:general of See also:Champagne and See also:Brie, See also:governor of See also:Foix. In his youth he was the See also:hero of an See also:episode of gallantry with See also:Anne of Beauvilliers, See also:abbess of La Joye, which led to the See also:suggestion that she was none other than the Portuguese See also:nun of the famous Letters. His son, HENRI FRANCOIS, See also:comte de Segur (1689-1751), was See also:colonel at seventeen, when he succeeded to the command of the Segur See also:regiment which his See also:father had raised. In 1718 he began a See also:thirty years' See also:tenure of the lieutenant-generalship of Champagne and Brie. He had married in that See also:year Angelique de Froissy, a natural daughter of the See also:regent, See also:Philip of See also:Orleans, but the See also:death of his father-in-See also:law a few years later prevented his See also:reaping See also:special See also:advancement from his See also:marriage, though Mme de Segur belonged to the inner circle of See also:Louis XV.'s intimates. Segur served in See also:Italy during the See also:war of the See also:Polish See also:Succession under See also:Marshal See also:Villars, and became, in 1736, inspector-general of See also:cavalry. In 1738 he was sent to See also:Nancy as lieutenant-general under Marshal Belle-Isle, and to Bohemia in 1741 with the French troops allied with the Bavarians. But in See also:September 1741 he was compelled by the imperial troops to surrender at See also:Linz.

In 1744 he was again sent to See also:

Bavaria, and defeated the Austrians at Lichtenau on the 28th of See also:January 1745. He served throughout the Flemish campaigns of 1746 and 1747, and was commandant of See also:Metz at the time of his death (,8th of See also:June 1751). His son, PHILIPPE HENRI, marquis de Segur (1724-1801), marshal of France, his See also:grandson, Louis PHILIPPE, comte de Segur (1753-1830), and Louis Philippe's son PHILIPPE See also:PAUL, comte de Segur (1780—1873), are separately noticed.

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