Background
Joseph Marie Amiot was born at Toulon.
錢德明
Joseph Marie Amiot was born at Toulon.
He was a correspondent of the Académie des Sciences, official translator of Western languages for the Qianlong Emperor, and the spiritual leader of the French mission in Peking. He died in Peking in 1793, two days after the departure of the British Macartney Embassy. He could not meet Lord Macartney, but exhorted him to patience in two letters, explaining that "this world is the reverse of our own".
He used a Chinese name (錢德明) while he was in China.