Letter to the Keeper of the Seals. Paris, France. 1779 Oct. 2.
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Guignes, Joseph de 1721-1800
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The manuscript was originally purported to be a French translation from the Dutch of a journal by Isaac Titsingh, the First Ambassador of the Dutch embassy to the court of Ch'ien-lung in 1794 and 1795. A 1984 examination of a photocopy of the manuscript suggested that it was actually. written by Joseph de Guignes, an interpreter on the embassy. From the description of Journal d'un voyage à Peking traduit du hollandais et du manuscrit autographe de M. Titzing...