Philippe Paul de Segur (4 November 1780-25 February 1873) was a French general during the Napoleonic Wars.
Biography[]
Philippe Paul de Segur was born in Paris, France in 1780, the son of Count Louis Philippe de Segur. He enlisted in the French Army cavalry in 1800 and served under General Etienne Macdonald in Switzerland before serving on the personal staff of Napoleon. He was captured by the Russians during the Polish campaign in 1807, but he was exchanged at the Peace of Tilsit. He went on to be promoted to colonel, and he was wounded during the Peninsular War. Segur served as a brigadier-general during the French invasion of Russia and distinguished himself at the 1813 Battle of Hanau, and he remained in the army at the Bourbon Restoration. Because he accepted a command from Napoleon during the Hundred Days, he was retired until 1818. In 1831, he was made a lieutenant-general and a peer, and he retired after the French Revolution of 1848. He died in 1873.