After being ordained he received his theology doctorate and taught at the
College of Navarre from 10 May 1785. As
curé of the Paris church of
Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, his charity efforts gained him the nickname of "the new
saint Vincent de Paul". On 30 April 1789 he was elected a clergy deputy in the fourth place, after
Antoine-Éléonor-Léon Leclerc de Juigné,
François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine de Montesquiou-Fézensac and abbé De Chevreuil. He sat on the right, defended the
Ancien régime and took the oath on clergy goods. He and all his parish's priests refused to preach at Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet in favour of the
Civil Constitution of the Clergy and so he was dismissed from that parish and imprisoned as a counter-revolutionary in January 1791 in the
Carmes Prison. He died there in the
September Massacres of 1792. He was beatified on 17 October 1926 by
pope Pius XI as one of the "
Holy September Martyrs". ==References==