 He was chaplain of the Ursulines and Canon in his home town when his refusal to sign the formula of the acceptation of the Papal Bull "Unigenitus" forced him to leave.He went to Paris where for twelve years he remained with the community of St. Roch.A strongly Jansenistic book which he wrote, "Instructions catholiques sur la dévotion au Sacre-Coeur" (Paris, 1777), brought this connection to an end.