Countess of Ségur
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Sophie Rostopchine, Countess of Ségur, born Sofiya Feodorovna Rostopchina, was a French writer of Russian birth and origin. She is best known today for her novel Les Malheurs de Sophie, intended for c
Portrait by Louis Gaston Adrien de Ségur, c. 1840
"Do you want to give me a kiss?"
Pierre de Ségur
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Pierre-Marie-Maurice-Henri, marquis de Ségur was a French writer and historian, elected a member of the Académie française in 1907. He was the eldest son of Anatole, marquis de Ségur, and Cécile Cuvel
Countess of Ségur
…conjugal visits to their château des Nouettes (near L'Aigle, Orne) produced eight children, including Nathalie de Ségur and the father of the historian Pierre de Ségur (Eugène de Ségur is said to have called his wife "la mère Gigogne", or "Mother Gigogne" in reference to a theatre character of 1602, an enormous woman…
Pierre de Ségur in 1914