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See also: born at See also: Toulon in See also: February 1718
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He entered the Society of Jesus in 1737 and was sent in 1750 as a missionary to See also: China
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He soon won the confidence of the emperor Kien-See also: lung and spent the See also: remainder of his See also: life at See also: Pekin, where he died on the Oh of See also: October 1793
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See also: Amiot was eminently fitted to make See also: good use of the advantages which his situation afforded, and his See also: works did more than had ever been done before to make known to the Western See also: world the thought and life of the Far See also: East
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His Dictionnaire tatare-mantchou See also: francais (See also: Paris, 1789) was a See also: work of See also: great value, the language having been previously quite unknown in See also: Europe
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His other writings are to be found chiefly in the Memoires concernant l'histoire, See also: les sciences et les arts de Chinois (15 vols., Paris, 1776-1791)
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The See also: Vie de Confucius, the twelfth See also: volume of that collection, is See also: complete and accurate
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For full bibliography see De Backer and C
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Sommervogel, Bibliotheque de la Cie. de Jesus, i
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294-303; for his works on See also: Chinese See also: music see F
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J
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See also: Fetis, Biog. univers. See also: des musiciens (Brussels, 1837-1844)
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