sentences:  He studied at the Académie and the Grand-Séminaire of Besançon, also at St-Sulpice and the Sorbonne.Ordained priest in 1822, he joined Lamennais at "La Chesnaie" (1825) after a few years spent with Antoine de Salinis at the Lycée Henri IV.An admirer of Lamennais, he nevertheless accepted the papal encyclical "Mirari vos" of 15 August 1832, and the "Singulari nos" of 13 July 1834, which condemned the traditionalism of Lamennais.