Philippe Henri, Marquis de Ségur was a French military officer who was Marshal of France and Secretary of State for War under King Louis XV and later King Louis XVI. He was a grandson of Philippe II,
Official portrait as Marshal of France, 1789 (copy by Joséphine Houssay after Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun).
Louise-Anne-Madeleine, Marquise de Ségur, née de Vernon (1729–1778).
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Victor von Gibelin, also known as Beau Gibelin because of his beauty, was a Swiss military officer in French service and a politician in his hometown of Solothurn in Switzerland. He was the last offic
Victor von Gibelin, chalk drawing by Henri-Pierre Danloux, portrayed in Paris in 1791.
14 July 1789: The Baron de Besenval's troops in the courtyard of the École militaire on the Champ de Mars, consisting of the Swiss Regiments de Diesbach, de Châteauvieux and de Salis-Samade, the latter was the regiment in which Victor von Gibelin and Ludwig von Flüe served at that time, as well as the French Hussar Regiments de Berchény and de Chamborant. After the Taking of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 by the revolutionaries, the baron's troops hastily withdrew on the night of 14 to 15 July.
The dining room of the Hôtel de Besenval. It was in 1782, when the architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, commissioned by the Baron de Besenval, transformed the Grand cabinet into what was then a novelty: A dining room in the neoclassical style.