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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:40, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

François Noël (missionary)

 * ... that François Noël’s Historical Notices of Chinese Rituals... was almost immediately suppressed upon publication despite bearing a papal imprimatur?
 * ALT1: ... that the Jesuit missionary François Noël—who translated the Tao Te Ching and argued for Chinese rituals before the Vatican—also wrote a comedy?
 * ALT2: ... that the Jesuit missionary François Noël—who translated the Tao Te Ching and argued for Chinese rituals before the Vatican—also wrote several tragedies?
 * ALT3: ... that François Noël translated the four Confucian classics in the hope that it would help make Christ the cornerstone of every life?
 * ALT4: ... that the missionary François Noël published mathematical & astronomical observations, six tragedies, a defense of Chinese ancestral veneration, translations of the Confucian classics, & a comedy?
 * ALT5: ... that, after defending Confucian rituals a second time before the Vatican, François Noël was forbidden to return to China?
 * ALT6: ... that François Noël’s translations were banned in the Papal States and Germany but praised by Du Halde in his Description of China?
 * ALT7: ... that François Noël’s translations were banned in Germany but more influential there than in western Europe?
 * ALT8: ... that François Noël returned to China in 1707 to find that the papal legate and bishop of Fujian had left Catholics there with a choice between expulsion and excommunication?
 * ALT9: ... that François Noël—who argued the Jesuits' side in the Chinese Rites controversy—only joined the China mission after his first choice—Japan—turned out to be unavailable?
 * ALT10: ... that Clement XI snowed François Noël and the other Jesuits who visited Rome, sweet-talking them while using their arguments to make his ruling against them more ironclad?
 * Reviewed: Will do. Cystocele
 * Comment: Note to potential reviewers: Don't worry. You only need to review the hook(s) most interesting to you. ALT10 might be too strong [if still accurate...]

Created by LlywelynII (talk). Self-nominated at 08:11, 31 December 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg Interesting life and work, on good sources, Chinese and offline sources accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. I approve ALT6. Please write more lead (of some facts from these hooks), and/or an infobox. Check consistent spelling of his name, and see if "Despite the Noël and Castner's efforts" can be said better. (maybe not) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:25, 1 January 2018 (UTC)