Fr François Xavier d'Entrecolles, SJ, was a Frenchman who learned the Chinese technique of manufacturing porcelain through his investigations in China at Jingdezhen with the help of Chinese Catholic converts between 1712 and 1722, during the rule of the Kangxi Emperor.
For centuries, Europeans were obsessed with Chinese porcelain but couldn't figure out the secret recipe for it. So a French priest travelled there to steal it.
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