Auguste Desgodins was a French missionary who attempted to enter into Tibet

Tibet

Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...

 in the early 1860s. While both Desgodins and his colleague, the Vicar Apostolic Thomine-Desmazures were granted passports to enter Lhasa

Lhasa

Lhasa is the administrative capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China and the second most populous city on the Tibetan Plateau, after Xining. At an altitude of , Lhasa is one of the highest cities in the world...

, Tibet in 1861 and 1862, they were repelled from the border on multiple occasions.

Desgodins published an essay of Tibetan grammar and was a key architect of the development of Tibetan-Latin dictionary French, which was published in 1899.

Along with Felix Biet

Félix Biet

Félix Biet was a French missionary and naturalist.Félix Biet was ordained as a priest in 1864. He was next sent to Tatsienlu in Tibet as a missionary and he became a Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kangding in 1898...

, he founded in 1865 the Catholic Church of Yerkalo.