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Segur

 

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Louise Philippe Segur : Memoirs and Recollections

21/8/1829 ? 'The General gave us an account of the early years of the [French] revolution, the other gentlemen assisting. The evening ended only too soon, but I read in my own room the M?moirs of S?gur, and with a curious feeling lay down, knowing I should see Lafayette next day!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie      Print: Book

  

Comtesse de Segur : Les Petites Filles Mod?les

'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to choose from the library shelves. "I had the run of my father's library", Rosamond remembered. "I was allowed to read anything and did". There was a bookcase in the hall where he would put books sent to him for review, and from these Rosamond, graduating from her beloved Hans Andersen, E. Nesbit and "Les Petites Filles Modeles", began to discover some of the more adult novelists'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamond Lehmann      Print: Book

  

Alexandre Joseph Pierre de Segur : Les Femmes, leur condition et leur influence dans l'ordre social chez differents peuples anciens et modernes

'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon women.' [also records reading latter text in journal entries for 23 November 1825].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

Philippe-Paul, comte de Segur : Histoire de Napoleon et de la grande armee, pendant l'annee 1812

'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Tower of London lately published, which read when you can, for its historical anecdotes - and also (if you like Tours) read John Russel's Tour in Germany in 1820, 21, 22.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Book

  

Segur : Life of Buonaparte

Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 17 February 1825: 'I feel already the hundred comforts of the [Mardi Gras] carnival being at an end. I have had time already, today and yesterday, to read nearly a whole volume of Segur's Life of Buonaparte during the war in Russia. It is interesting and entrainant beyond measure.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Countess Granville      Print: Book

  

Philippe-Paule Ségur (Comte de)  : Un Aide de Camp de Napoléon (de 1800 à 1812

'I'll show you where I got the hint for it [his story "The Warriors' Soul"] in Philippe de Ségur. There's a hint for another in him but I fancy too macabre (and improper) to use.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

 

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