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This event is in the past.It took place on June 12, 2025 at Centre Culturel de Chine.
Literature TalkLiterature TalkLearn how 17th-century Jesuit missionaries sent by Louis XIV mastered Chinese, translated ancient texts, and scandalized Europe by proving Chinese history predated the Bible—shaping Voltaire and the Enlightenment along the way.
Intellectual history
Sino-French relations
Academic lecture
Enlightenment era
Tips
🌍"everything is translated" for non-French speakers
⏰arrive 30 min early, 15 min late = no entry
📚speaker wrote definitive books on early China-France exchanges
L’histoire de la naissance de la sinologie française
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Literature TalkLiterature TalkLearn how 17th-century Jesuit missionaries sent by Louis XIV mastered Chinese, translated ancient texts, and scandalized Europe by proving Chinese history predated the Bible—shaping Voltaire and the Enlightenment along the way.
Intellectual history
Sino-French relations
Academic lecture
Enlightenment era
Tips
🌍"everything is translated" for non-French speakers
⏰arrive 30 min early, 15 min late = no entry
📚speaker wrote definitive books on early China-France exchanges
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