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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Joseph Henri Marie de Premare |
 | | Joseph Henri Marie de Prémare, missionary and sinologist, born at Cherbourg, 17 July, 1666; died at Macao, 17 Sept., 1736; entered the Society of Jesus 17 Sept., 1683, and departed for China in 1698. |
 | | In his retirement he studied profoundly the language and literature of China, and in the opinion of sinologists he, of all the older missionaries, best succeeded in grasping their peculiarities and beauties. |
 | | The famous English sinologist, James Legge, calls it "an invaluable work, of which it could hardly be possible to speak in too high terms". |
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