Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur

Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur (10 December 1753 – 27 August 1830) was a French diplomat and historian.

[1] In 1784 he was sent as minister plenipotentiary to Saint Petersburg, where he was received into the intimacy of the empress Catherine II and wrote some comedies for her theatre.

After fighting a duel he was forced to leave Berlin, and went into retirement until 1801 when, at Bonaparte's command, he was nominated by the senate to the Corps Législatif.

Deprived of his offices and functions in 1815 for joining Napoleon during the Hundred Days, he was reinstated in 1819, supported the Revolution of 1830, but died shortly afterwards in Paris.

[1] Ségur married on 30 April 1777 Antoinette Élisabeth d'Aguesseau, who also died in Paris, and had three sons and one daughter: