Meanwhile he arrived at Rome, where he finished his studies, and at last obtained the desired permission setting out with Martini in 1656 2). Setting out almost immediately he was already on his way to Vienna and thence to Rome, when a letter from the General, Goswin Nickel, arrived at Louvain disapproving of and annulling his nomination to the mission. At Louvain his lectures on China made a great stir, and among the first to volunteer was d'Orville. Here it was that in 1654 he saw Father Martin Martini Leaving China in 1651 to report on the mission at Rome Martini was long detained at Batavia, but at length reached Amsterdam. Having first studied for three years at Ingolstadt he was from 1651-1654 a theological student at Louvain. Country at an early age, for after a six years' course of humanities we meet him at the court of the duke of Neuburg, which he quitted in 1646 to begin his Jesuit noviceship on October 30 or November 2 at Landsberg in Lorrain at the northern base of the Vosges.
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