Louis le Comte

Louis le Comte (1655–1728), also Louis-Daniel Lecomte, was a French Jesuit who participated in the 1687 French Jesuit mission to China under Jean de Fontaney.

He arrived in China on 7 February 1688.

[1] He returned to France in 1691 as Procurator of the Jesuits.

[2] His Nouveau mémoire sur l'état présent de la Chine, which was published in Paris in 1696, caused great debate within the Chinese Rites Controversy.

[3] By 1696, he had been appointed Mathematician to the King of France.