Person
Jean-François Gerbillon
Жан-Франсуа Жербийон
Two travelers wrote about Jean-François Gerbillon between 1893 and 1929. Here is what each of them saw, in the order they were there.
- 1893–1929
Larson, Duke of Mongolia
Jean-François Gerbillon, the French Jesuit at the Manchu court whose journals record an early crossing of Mongolia. He helped negotiate the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk between China and Russia.
…of the Gathering of the Clans), which is graphically described by Gerbillon, an eyewitness, as the scene of the meeting of the Khalha princes with the Manchu Emperor…Listen from here · chapter 11, 1:34…Nor, the long narrow lagoon renowned for its pastures, where in 1698 Gerbillon spent a week in the suite of the Manchu High Commissioner who held the first Council with…Listen from here · chapter 11, 6:55 - 1902
Journeys in Mongolia
Jean-François Gerbillon, the French Jesuit at the Kangxi court who crossed eastern Mongolia in the 1690s and left the earliest careful European route-descriptions of it — the author's chief forerunner two centuries before.
…Kang-hsi to hold the first council of the Khalha princes, and Gerbillon’s journal remained for two hundred years the solitary description in European literature…Listen from here · chapter 8, 3:48…He is the “Grand Lama Houtouktou” who figures so largely in Gerbillon’s description of the assembly of the Khalha princes held by Kanghsi at Dolon Nor in 1691.Listen from here · chapter 10, 0:59
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