Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur

Count Philippe -Paul de Ségur (* November 4, 1780 in Paris, † February 25, 1873 ) was a French army officer and the son of Louis -Philippe de Ségur.

Life

In 1799 he appeared as a hussar in the army and made Moreau's campaign in Bavaria and Macdonald's campaign in Graubünden. In 1802 he became a member of Napoleon's personal staff. In 1805 he negotiated with the Austrian General Mack the capitulation of Ulm. In the Polish campaign he fell into Russian captivity from which he was released in the same year by the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 again. When Napoleon's adjutant, he personally led the attack on the mountain pass of Somosierra 1808 and was promoted to colonel on.

After serving in the Russian campaign in 1812 as a brigadier general in the wake of Napoleon, he organized at the beginning of the campaign of 1814 the 5th regiment of the guards of honor and, after the fall of Napoleon by Louis XVIII. the command of the cavalry, which had been created from the remnants of the old guard. Since he had used during the Hundred Days of Napoleon as Chief of Staff of the beorderten to cover the Rhine Army Corps, he retired after the second restoration to private life and wrote his Histoire de Napoléon et de la grande armée pendant 1812, which the General Gourgaud occasion for his exams critique and consequently to a duel with de Segur was. The work is famous for its sparkling performance, however, is often a false picture of events. Segur 1830 was inducted into the Academy. After the July Revolution de Segur came back into active service, was appointed in 1831 to lieutenant general and Pair, and died February 25, 1873 in Paris.

Honors

His name is on the Arch of Triumph in Paris in the 12th column ( SÉGUR, PH. ) Registered.

Works (selection)

• Histoire de Russie et de Pierre le Grand (par. 1829, 2 vols, German, Zweibr, 1829. ) And
• Histoire de Charles VIII (par. 1835, 3 vols, 2nd edition, 1842), mostly from the literary estate of his father. From his estate appeared Histoire et mémoires, période de 1789 à 1848 (par. 1873, 8 vols ). See Taillandier, Le General Philippe de S. (par. 1875).
• Histoire de Napoléon et de la grande armée pendant 1812 (Paris 1824, 2 vols; 16.Aufl.1852; German after the 10th edition translated by Kottenkamp, Verlag Heinrich Hoff, Mannheim 1835, 2nd Revised Edition 1836 and more ),