Michel Benoist

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Michel Benoist

Jesuit priest

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Chinese architecture
The Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12)
…designed by the Jesuit priest Michel Benoist. Today the Yuanmingyuan has almost completely disappeared, as the foreign-style buildings were burned by the French and British in 1860. To replace it, the empress dowager Cixi greatly enlarged the new summer palace (Yiheyuan) along the shore of Kunming Lake to the north…
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…designed by the Jesuit priest Michel Benoist. Today the Yuanmingyuan has almost completely disappeared, as the foreign-style buildings were burned by the French and British in 1860. To replace it, the empress dowager Cixi greatly enlarged the new summer palace (Yiheyuan) along the shore of Kunming Lake to the north…
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