Joseph Séguy  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.