Career
He then lived in Beijing for the rest of his life. His Chinese name was Sun Kiun-yung. He had taken Dominique Parrenin"s place as head of the school in which Manchus were taught Latin, to act as interpreters in Russian affairs
Gaubil, the best astronomer and historian among the French Jesuits in China during the eighteenth century, carried on an extensive correspondence with the savants of his day, among them Fréret and Delisle.