Joseph-Alexandre Pierre de Ségur, Viscount of Ségur

Joseph Alexandre Pierre, vicomte de Ségur (14 April 1756 - 27 July 1805) was a French poet, songwriter and playwright.

He was born in Paris, as the son of Philippe Henri de Ségur, Marquis of Ségur and Louise Anne Madeleine de Vernon. In reality, he was the son of the best friend of his father, Pierre Victor, baron de Besenval de Brünstatt, who acquired a certain notority under the French Revolution. He was Colonel of the Regiments of Noailles and Lorraine, and of the Dragoons of Ségur during the Ancien Régime.

Licentious by vocation, the vicomte de Ségue spent his existence composing poems, songs and comedies. In a way of perpetuating the tradition instituted by his birth, he had himself many adulterine children, to whom he gave his name and whose education he financed.

He made build to host his mistress Louise Julie Careau a house at the rue Chantereine, by the architect Perrard de Montreuil, a house that later hosted the loves of Joséphine and Bonaparte and became known as "Maison du 18 brumaire". He had two sons from her, Alexandre-Philippe de Ségur (1781 - 10 February 1803), unmarried and without issue, and Alexandre, vicomte de Ségur (1793 - 28 April 1864), who married Caroline Mathieu de Mauvières (- Paris, 1855), and had one daughter, Marie-Renée Claude de Ségur (12 February 1824 - 1 November 1903), who married Auguste de Gramont, duc de Lesparre (1 July 1820 - 4 September 1877), and had three daughters.

In 1789 he was elected a Deputy for the Nobility of Paris for the Estates-General. He remained loyal to the King and the monarchy, but participated very little in the debates. In 1790, he retired from political life and occupied himself of literature, publishing dramas and comedies.

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