Comte Philippe-Paul de Ségur

1780 - 1873  (92 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Philippe-Paul de Ségur
  Prefix	Comte
  Birth	4 Nov 1780
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Feb 1873
  Siblings	1 Sibling
  + 1. Octave-Gabriel-Henri de Ségur,   b. 1779   d. 1818  (Age 39 years) ▻ Marie-Félicité d’ Aguesseau,  m. 12 Mar 1797 + 2. Comte Philippe-Paul de Ségur,   b. 4 Nov 1780   d. 25 Feb 1873  (Age 92 years) ▻ Antoinette Charlotte le Gnedre de Lucav;   Marie-Françoise de Vintimille du Luc,  m. 4 Mar 1826
  Person ID	I388974	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2006

  
  

  Father	Comte Louis Philippe de Ségur,   b. 10 Dec 1753   d. 27 Aug 1830 (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Antoinette Elizabeth Marie d' Aguesseau   d. 1828
  Family ID	F154682	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Antoinette Charlotte le Gnedre de Lucav   d. 1813
  Children	+ 1. General Charles Louis-Philippe de Ségur   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F154681	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2006

  
  

  Family 2	Marie-Françoise de Vintimille du Luc,   b. 26 Jun 1787   d. 2 Jan 1862 (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	4 Mar 1826
  Children	1. Célestine de Ségur   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Marie-Laure de Ségur   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F154680	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Sep 2006

  
  

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  He enlisted in the cavalry in 1800, and forthwith obtained a commission. He served with General Macdonald in the Grisons in 1800-1801, and published an account of the campaign in 1802. By the influence of Colonel Duroc (afterwards duc de Frioul) he was attached to the personal staff of Napoleon . He served through most of the important campaigns of the first empire, and was frequently employed on diplomatic missions. During the campaign in Poland in 1807 he was taken prisoner by the Russians, but was exchanged at the peace of Tilsit . His brilliant conduct in the cavalry charge at Somosierra on November 30 , 1808 won him the grade of colonel, but his wounds compelled him to return to France. As general of brigade he took part in the Russian campaign of 1812 , and in the campaigns of 1813 and 1814 he repeatedly distinguished himself, notably at Hanau (October 1813), and in a brilliant affair at Reims (March 1814). He remained in the army at the Restoration , but, having accepted a command from Napoleon during the Hundred Days , he was retired until 1818, and took no further active part in affairs until the July Revolution of 1830 . During his retirement he wrote his Histoire de Napoléon et de la grande armée pendant l'année 1812 (Paris, 2 vols., 1824), which ran through numerous editions, and was translated into several languages. The unfavourable portrait of Napoleon given in this book provoked representations from General Gourgaud , and eventually a duel , in which Ségur was wounded. On the establishment of the July monarchy he received, in 1831, the grade of lieutenant-general and a peerage. In 1830 he was admitted to the Académie française , and he became grand cross of the Legion of Honour in 1847 . After the Revolution of 1848 he lived in retirement. His works include: Histoire de Russie et de Pierre le Grand (1829); Histoire de Charles VIII. (2 vols., 1834?1842), in continuation of the history of France begun by his father; and the posthumous Histoire et mémoires (8 vols., 1873). See Un Aide-de-camp de Napoléon (1800-1812), mémoires du général comte de Ségur, new edition by his grandson Louis de Ségur (3 vols., 1894-1895), of which an abridged English version was published in 1895.