About Joseph Séguy
Lived 1689 – 1761 (aged 71–72). Joseph Séguy was a French translator, cleric, writer, preacher and catholic theologian.
Joseph Séguy (1689 in Rodez – 25 March 1761) was a French clergyman.
A royal preacher, he wrote Panégyriques de saints, Sermons pour les principaux jours du carême, and a Nouvel essai de poésies sacrées, in which he made a French verse translation of Psalms and the songs of the Bible. He was elected to the Académie française in 1736.
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Who was Joseph Séguy?
French translator
When was Joseph Séguy born?
Joseph Séguy was born in 1689 in Rodez.
When did Joseph Séguy die?
Joseph Séguy died on 25 March 1761 in Meaux.
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Joseph Séguy was a translator, cleric, writer, preacher and catholic theologian.
What nationality was Joseph Séguy?
Joseph Séguy was French.
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