sentences:  After fruitless efforts to convert the master, he withdrew to the Collège de Juilly (1836).The years 1839-49 he spent in Rome, gathering data for his "Esquisse de Rome Chrétienne".Recalled by Monseigneur Sibour, he became successively professor of sacred eloquence at the Sorbonne, Vicar-General of Amiens, and bishop of Perpignan (1854).