Pierre-Marie-Maurice-Henri,
marquis de Ségur (13 February 1853 in
Paris
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– 13 August 1916 in
Poissy
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) was a French writer and historian, elected a member of the
Académie française
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in 1907. He was the eldest son of , and Cécile Cuvelier; and thus the grandson of
Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur.
Works
*''Le
maréchal de Ségur'', 1895
*''La dernière des Condé'', 1899
*''Jeunesse du
maréchal de Luxembourg'', 1900
*''Gens d'autrefois'', 1903
*''Parmi les cyprès et les lauriers'', 1912
References
Notice biographique de l'Académie française
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1853 births
1916 deaths
Writers from Paris
Collège Stanislas de Paris alumni
Members of the Conseil d'État (France)
Knights of the Legion of Honour
19th-century French writers
20th-century French writers
French biographers
19th-century French historians
20th-century French historians
Members of the Académie Française
Marquesses of Ségur
French male non-fiction writers
Members of the Ligue de la patrie française