Carlo Tommaso Maillard de Tournon collection 1705-1984 1705-1726

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Carlo Tommaso Maillard de Tournon collection 1705-1984 1705-1726

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1456

The collection consists of correspondence by Carlo Tommaso Maillard de Tournon, members of his staff, and associates which documents Tournon's legation to the Sino-Manchu empire (1705-1710). The collection also includes a journal kept by Giovanni Borghese, Tournon's personal physician; later letters (1711-1726) from missionaries in China; and twentieth century printed material concerning Tournon and his mission.

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351388

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Maillard de Tournon, Carlo Tommaso, 1668-1710

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Carlo Tommaso Maillard de Tournon was born in Turin on December 21, 1668. In 1701 Pope Clement XI selected Tournon to be an apostolic visitor to the East Indies and patriarch of Antioch and consecrated him bishop. Tournon left Rome in 1702, and, after extended stays in India and Manilla, arrived in China in 1705, where he was welcomed by Kʻang-hsi Emperor. When Tournon sought to enforce his opposition to the traditional Chinese rites in honor of Confucius (1706), the emperor banished him to Maca...