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

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and the songs of the

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. He was elected to the Académie française in 1736.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Seguy, Joseph 1689 births 1761 deaths People from Rodez Translators from Hebrew 18th-century French writers 18th-century French male writers Translators to French Members of the Académie Française 18th-century French translators