Antoine-Louis Séguier

Antoine -Louis Séguier ( born December 1, 1726 Paris, † January 26, 1792 in Tournai ) was a French lawyer and politician.

Life and work

Séguier with Marguerite Henriette Vassal (* 1740) was married. The couple had two children, Jean Antoine Armand Mathieu Séguier, Baron de l'Empire (1768-1848) and Louis Armand Maurice Séguier ( 1770-1831 ).

In 1748 he was appointed avocat du roi, and in 1751 the Advocate General of the Grand Council ( Avocat général au Grand Conseil ). In 1755 he was diagnosed in the Parlements of Paris in 1755. Under the patronage of Louis XV. He was elected in 1757 as a member of the Académie française. He only left some speeches, memoirs and accusations.

Séguier was an opponent of the philosophers of the Enlightenment, which he describes as " an impious and daring sect ," and he denounced their "false wisdom " to. So the work of the nature of Paul Henri Thiry d' Holbach system was a outlaw by the authorities work. Circles of the French clergy their sheer hearing before the Parlement in Paris, the Attorney General Séguier gave a speech for the prosecution before the General Assembly. In the episode, there was a ceremonial burning of the book on 18 August 1770.

In 1772 he was a member of the Catholic Confrerie of the Penitents Blancs de Montpellier. He emigrated in the early days of the French Revolution to the year 1790 and died at Tournai in present-day Belgium in 1792, where he was buried in the church of Saint -Jacques de Tournai.

Works

• Discours de réception. Éloge de Fontenelle. March 31, 1757.
• Réponse au discours de réception de Chamfort. July 19, 1781.