 In 1853 Simon-Lucien Dufaur de Saubiac, of the National Assembly, heard Fauré play and advised Toussaint-Honoré to send him to the École de Musique Classique et Religieuse (School of Classical and Religious Music), better known as the , which Louis Niedermeyer was setting up in Paris.After reflecting for a year, Fauré's father agreed and took the nine-year-old boy to Paris in October 1854.Helped by a scholarship from the bishop of his home diocese, Fauré boarded at the school for 11 years.