1817 Segur Universal History
Ancient GREECE Rome Egypt MAPS Illustrated 16v SET
Assyria, Jewish, Sicily, Carthage
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Louis Philippe de
Segur’s famous history of the world with folding maps and full-page copper
engravings!
Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur (1753 – 1830)
was a French diplomat and historian.
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Main author: Louis Philippe de Ségur
Title: Abrégé De L'Histoire Universelle : Ancienne Et Moderne, À L'Usage
De La Jeunesse Histoire Ancienne
Published: Paris:
Eymery, 1817.
Language: French
Notes &
contents:
·
8 volume set
o 16
tomes
§ 1-3:
Egypt and Assyria
§ 4-5:
History of the Jews
§ 6-8:
Ancient Greece
§ 9:
Sicily and Carthage
§ 10-16:
Roman history
·
Illustrated throughout with 55 full-page copper
engravings
o Including
8 folding maps
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Pages: complete with all (201 +
217 + 228) + (216 + 209) + (221 + 223) + (267 + 206) + (288 + 250) + (282 + 309)
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Publisher: Paris: Eymery, 1817.
Size: ~5.5in X 3.5in (14cm x 9cm)
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Louis Philippe, comte de Ségur (10 December 1753 – 27 August
1830) was a French diplomat and historian.
Biography[edit]
Ségur was born in Paris, the son of Philippe Henri, marquis
de Ségur and Louise Anne Madeleine de Vernon. He entered the army in 1769,
served in the American War of Independence in 1781 as a colonel under
Rochambeau.
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. At Saint Petersburg he concluded (in
January 1787) a commercial treaty which was exceedingly advantageous to France.
The same year he accompanied Catherine II in her journey to the Crimea. He
returned to Paris in 1789.
Ségur took up a sympathetic attitude towards the Revolution
at its outset and in 1791 was sent on a mission to Berlin, where he was badly
received. 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.
Subsequently he became a member of the council of state,
grand master of the ceremonies, and senator, 1813. In 1814 Ségur voted for the
deposition of Napoleon and entered Louis XVIII's Chamber of Peers. 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.
Ségur married on 30 April 1777 Antoinette Élisabeth
d'Aguesseau, who also died in Paris, and had three sons and one daughter:
Octave-Henri Gabriel, comte de Ségur (Paris, 5 June 1779 –
Paris, 15 August 1818), soldier and famous suicide
Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur (Paris, 4 November 1780 –
Paris, 25 February 1873), general and historian
Olivier Alexandre de Ségur (3 October 1790 – 4 May 1791)
Laure Antoinette de Ségur (11 April 1778 – 15 July 1812),
married Louis Auguste Vallet de La Touche, baron de Villeneuve, marquis du
Blanc (Paris, 4 February 1779 – le Blanc, Indre, 24 December 1837), and had issue
Bibliography[edit]
Histoire des principaux évènements du règne de
Fréderic-Guillaume II (1800)
Pensées politiques (Paris, 1795)
Histoire de France (n vols., 1824–1834)
Histoire des juifs (1827)
Mémoires (3 vols., 1824)
Contes (1809)
His Œuvres complètes were published in 34 volumes in 1824 et
seq.