Jean-Baptiste-Denis Despré
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Jean-Baptiste-Denis Després was a French journalist, publisher, playwright, librettist and translator, who was educated at the College Mazarin.
Jean-Baptiste-Denis Després, portrayed around 1820, wearing a Dutch order, sitting on a chair on the terrace of his house overlooking the village of Crécy-la-Chapelle, where he was the mayor. The church of the village can be seen in the background.
Joseph-Alexandre Pierre, Vicomte de Ségur, was a French military officer, politician, poet, songwriter and playwright.
Joseph-Alexandre Pierre, Vicomte de Ségur, with his official grandmother Philippa Angélique, Comtesse de Ségur, née de Froissy, who was herself an illegitimate child, portrayed by Louis Carrogis Carmontelle in 1763. The Vicomte de Ségur's real grandmother on his father's side was Katarzyna, Baronne de Besenval de Brunstatt, née Bielińska (1684–1761).
The Vicomte de Ségur's hôtel particulier at 6 Rue Chantereine, the house that he had either rented or received from his father, the Baron de Besenval. The house became famous as the Hôtel Bonaparte, painted by Charles-Nicolas Ransonnette.
In 1791, Joseph-Alexandre Pierre de Ségur inherited the bare ownership of the Hôtel de Besenval, using it as the editorial headquarters for the monarchist newspaper La Feuille du jour, which he published together with the journalist Pierre-Germain Parisau and Jean-Baptiste-Denis Després.
The frontispiece of the first edition of the memoirs of the Baron de Besenval showing his portrait. The memoirs were published by Joseph-Alexandre Pierre de Ségur between 1805 and 1806 in four volumes.