List of Famous people with last name Segoffin

Victor Joseph Jean Ambroise Segoffin was a French sculptor. Born in Toulouse, he early education was at the Lycée Pierre de Fermat. After school Ségoffin was admitted to the Toulouse School of Fine Arts in the studio of Charles Ponsin-Andarahy. In 1887, having become an orphan, he joined the army. He took further education at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Louis-Ernest Barrias and Pierre-Jules Cavelier. Segoffin won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1897. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He became an instructor at the Ecole, became an officier of the Légion d'honneur in 1922, and a street in Toulouse is named for him.