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SEGUR , the name of a French family, the first member of which to attain distinction was FRANCOIS DE SEGUR, better known as the seigneur de Sainte-Aulaye (d. c. 16o5), who professed the reformed religion, and was closely associated with Henry
governor of Foix. In his youth he was the hero of an episode of gallantry with Anne of Beauvilliers, abbess of La Joye, which led to the suggestion that she was none other than the Portuguese nun of the famous Letters. His son, HENRI FRANCOIS, comte de Segur (1689-1751), was colonel at seventeen, when he succeeded to the command of the Segur regiment which his father had raised. In 1718 he began a thirty years' tenure of the lieutenant-generalship of Champagne and Brie. He had married in that year Angelique de Froissy, a natural daughter of the regent, Philip of Orleans, but the death of his father-in-law a few years later prevented his reaping special
marriage
Nancy
de Segur (17801873), are separately noticed. End of Article: SEGUR If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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