Segur, Louis Gaston De

Segur, Louis Gaston DE

a French prelate, was born at Paris in 1820. In 1856 he was made canon of the chapter of St. Denis, and died in 1881. Segur was one of the most active and influential members of the clerical party, unjust towards the Protestants, and a promoter of ultramontane ideas. He published, La Piete

et la Vie Intrieure (1863-64, 4 volumes): — Instructions Familiares et Lectures du Soir sur Toutes les Verites de la Religion (1865, 2 volumes): — La Liberte (1869): — Le Dogme de Infallibilite (1872): — Le Jeune Ouvrier Chretien (1876), etc. See Lichtenberger, Encyclop. des Sciences Religieuses, s.v. (B.P.)