Jean-François Foucquet

Until 1711 he worked in Fujian and Jiangxi, then he was invited to Peking, to teach math and astronomy.

Hu preached for a while in the Chinese language in front of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis, attracting a crowd.

In 1725 he was appointed as bishop of Eleutheropolis in Macedonia by Pope Benedict XIII, with Giovanni Francesco Nicolai, Titular Archbishop of Myra, and Giacinto Gaetano Chiurlia, Bishop of Giovinazzo, serving as co-consecrators.

[3] He published the Tabula Chronologica Historiæ Sinicæ ("Chronological table of Chinese History").

Foucquet, a Figurist,[10] endeavoured to show that the Book of changes (I Ching) anticipated the coming of Jesus Christ.