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Feb 01, 1674 Paris, Île de France, France Died on 18 Aug 1743 (aged 69)
French Jesuit historian specializing in China
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About Jean Baptiste Du Halde
- Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (Chinese: ???; 1 February 1674 – 18 August 1743) was a French Jesuit historian specializing in China.
- He did not travel to China, but collected seventeen Jesuit missionaries' reports and provided an encyclopedic survey of the history, culture and society of China and "Chinese Tartary," that is, Manchuria. Voltaire said of Du Halde's work: "Although it is developed out of Paris, and he hath not known the Chinese, [he] gave on the basis of the memoirs of his colleagues, the widest and the best description the empire of China has had worldwide."
