Antoine-Louis Séguier

Antoine-Louis Séguier (February 1st 1726 with Paris - January 26th 1792 with Turned) is a French magistrate and lawyer.

He is lawyer of the king in 1748, prosecuting attorney with the Grand the Council in 1751, then with the Parlement of Paris in 1755. Protected from Louis XV, he is elected member of the French Academy in 1757, but he left only some speeches, memories and indictments. Adversary of the philosophers of the Lumières, which it describes as “sect impious and daring” and of which it denounces it “distorts wisdom”, it emigrates as of the beginnings of the Révolution in 1790 and dies in Belgium in 1792.

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Biographical note of the French Academy

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