 Upon his liberation, he became lieutenant-general of the appellate court ("sénéchaussée") in La Rochelle, but left the city in 1593 and returned to Tours.After a second imprisonment for his beliefs, he converted to Catholicism in Tours in 1593, following the example of Henry IV.This conversion however earned him the hatred of the Protestants (his friend d'Aubigné became his personal enemy) and distanced him from the king (who sought to maintain his alliances with the huguenots).