 Elected "curé" of St. Paul's he defended the civil constitution against episcopal and papal censures in his "Discours patriotique au sujet des brefs du pape" and "La lanterne sourde" (aimed at François de Bonal, Bishop of Clermont).However, that he condemned the marriage of priests which the Constitution was trying to allow.Against this practice he wrote his "Réflexions d'un curé", and "Lettre d'un curé" (1791), and together with several other constitutionals he denounced its advocates without mercy in "Le nouveau disciple de Luther" (1792).