Artus de Lionne

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Artus de Lionne (1655–1713) in 1686 (detail).
The 1686 Siamese embassy of Kosa Pan, accompanied by their translator, Artus de Lionne (right). Painted by Jacques Vigouroux Duplessis (c.1680–1732).[1]

Artus de Lionne (1655–1713),

in partibus infidelium, in Turkey, was a French missionary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.[2] He was a son of Louis XIV's Foreign Minister, Hugues de Lionne.[3][4]

Biography

Artus de Lionne was born in

Siam as a missionary[5] in 1681.[4]

He returned to France in 1686, serving as translator to the embassy of the Siamese

General Desfarges following the French defeat in the Siege of Bangkok,[6] leaving Mgr Louis Laneau
a prisoner of the Siamese for several years.

Artus de Lionne then went to China as a missionary in 1689, where he worked with Bishop Maigrot in

Jesuits and took the opposite side in the Chinese Rites controversy.[9]

Artus de Lionne, as Bishop of Rosalie.

Artus de Lionne returned to Europe on 17 February 1702, accompanying the Chinese Christian

East India Company in order to reach London. By September or October 1702, they left England for France, in order to travel to Rome. On the verge of being ordained a priest in Rome and being presented to the pope to demonstrate the reality of Chinese Christianity, Arcadio Huang apparently renounced and declined ordination
. Artus de Lionne preferred to return to Paris to further his education, and wait for a better answer.

In 1705–1707, Artus de Lionne accompanied the mission of

Macao.[12]

Artus de Lionne significantly influenced the editing of the 1707 treatise against Chinese philosophy of Nicolas Malebranche[13] (Entretien d'un philosophe Chrétien et d'un philosophe chinois sur l'existence et la nature de Dieu).[14] He died in Paris in 1713.

Works

  • Chinese Manual: Sse Tse Ouen Tsien Tchou Four Words Literature (with) Commentary (or) Explication. ("Recueil de Phrases Chinoises, Composées de Quatre Caractères Et Dont Les Explications Sont Rangées Dans L'ordre Alphabétique Français")
  • Lionne, Artus de: Le journal de voyage au Siam de l'abbé de Lionne; suivi de Mémoire sur l'affaire. Paris: "Églises d'Asie", 2001.
    ISBN 2-914402-33-3

Notes

  1. ^ a b Les Missions Etrangères, p.44
  2. ^ French Speakers at the Cape in the First Hundred Years of Dutch East India ... – Page 316 by Maurice Boucher
  3. ^ Saint-Simon and the Court of Louis XIV By Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie p.215 [1]
  4. ^ a b Rituals of majesty: France, Siam, and court spectacle in royal image-building at Versailles in 1685 and 1686 Canadian Journal of History, Aug 1996 by Love, Ronald S [2]
  5. ^ Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson By Daniel Carey, p.81
  6. ^ a b Smithies, Note 3, p.28
  7. ^ Smithies, Note 51, p.34
  8. Alfred Owen Aldridge, Masayuki Akiyama, Yiu-Nam Leung [3]
  9. ISBN 9780824812195
    .
  10. ^ Barnes, p.82
  11. ^ The Great Encounter of China and the West By David E. Mungello Page 126 [4]
  12. Alfred Owen Aldridge, Masayuki Akiyama, Yiu-Nam Leung [5]
  13. ISBN 9780824812195
    .
  14. ^ The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy By Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers, Roger Ariew Page 97 [6]

References

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