sentences:  He held in 1849 a provincial council in Paris, and in 1850 a diocesan synod.In 1853 he officiated at the marriage of Napoleon III, who had named him senator the previous year.Although in his answer to Pope Pius IX he declared the definition of the Immaculate Conception inopportune, he was present at the promulgation of the decree and shortly afterwards solemnly published it in his own diocese.