Thousands of Chinese students came to France and , thanks to Li Shizeng 's connection , hundreds based themselves in Montargis , where there was a rubber factory belonging to the American firm Hutchinson .

成千上万的中国学生来到法国，幸亏有李石曾的联系，上百个学生在蒙达顿都可以自食其力，那里有一个属于美国哈钦森公司的橡胶厂。

Like many educated Chinese at the time , he believed the future lay in learning from the West and so he came to France , in fact to Montargis , where there was an agricultural training college .

如同当时许多受教育的中国人一样，他坚信前途贵在向西方学习，所以他来到了法国，实际上是到了蒙达顿，那里有一所农业培训的大学。