Jean Basset (died 1707)
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Jean Basset (died 1707)
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Jean Basset was a French Catholic missionary and Bible translator in Qing-era China. Basset was born around 1662 in Lyon. He entered the seminary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society in 1684 and in 1685 was sent as a missionary to Siam. In 1689 he arrived at Guangzhou (Canton) in China. In 1692–93 he served as provicar of the mission in the province of Jiangxi. From 1702 he was an active evangelist in southern and western Sichuan. He travelled extensively across the province, bought a house in
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French Catholic missionary (c. 1662 – 1707)
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2020-06-14T15:09:48Z
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2024-09-10T23:12:50Z
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