Michel Benoist [SEP] cause of death
Michel Benoist
Michel Benoist (, October 8, 1715 in Dijon, France – October 23, 1774 in Beijing, China of a stroke) was a Jesuit scientist, who stood in the service of the Chinese Qianlong Emperor for thirty years and is most noted for the waterworks he constructed for the emperor.
Education.
Michel Benoist studied in Dijon and at Saint Sulpice, Paris. He entered the Jesuit Novitiate at Nancy on March 18, 1737. Before he went to China as a missionary in 1744, he
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