Antoine-Louis Séguier
French lawyer and magistrate
Antoine-Louis Séguier (1 December 1726 in Paris – 26 January 1792 in Tournai) was a French lawyer and magistrate.
Biography
Séguier became avocat du roi in 1748, avocat général to the Grand Conseil in 1751, then to the Parlement of Paris in 1755. As a protégé of Louis XV he was elected a member of the Académie française in 1757, though the only written works he produced were some discourses, mémoires and réquisitoires. An opponent of Enlightenment philosophers, whom he called an "impious and audacious sect" and denounced as "false wisdom", he emigrated in 1790 at the start of the French Revolution and died in Belgium two years later.
External links
- Notice biographique de l'Académie française
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- Abel Servien (1634)
- Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer (1659)
- Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1691)
- Antoine-Louis Séguier (1757)
- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1803)
- Étienne Aignan (1814)
- Alexandre Soumet (1824)
- Ludovic Vitet (1845)
- Elme Marie Caro (1874)
- Gabriel Paul Othenin de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville (1888)
- Auguste Nompar de Caumont (1925)
- Joseph Kessel (1962)
- Michel Droit (1980)
- Pierre Nora (2001)