 The French missions which were attacked were part of the Paris Foreign Mission Society (Société des missions évangéliques de Paris MEP) and started by Fr Charles Renou.Tibetan monasteries constantly menaced the missions until the time the missionaries were killed in the 1905 rebellion.The Lamas besieged Bat'ang, burning down the mission chapel, and killing two French missionaries, Henri Mussot and Jean-André Soulié.