After completing his college courses, he devoted himself to the
study of theology in Orléans, and while a student there filled,
for a time, the position of professor in the fourth class of the
college of Châteaudun. He was ordained priest in 1824, and in
the following year was made pastor of Puiseaux, in the Diocese
of Orléans. He published a pamphlet: De la liberté, which
brought him into conflict with his bishop, Brunault de
Beauregard, in consequence of which he resigned his parish, and
went to Paris, where, in the same year, he founded L'Univers
Religieux, later L'Univers a journal intended by him to be free
from any political tendency, and concerned with Catholic
interests alone. He edited this paper until 1836, and
contributed to it a very great number of articles. Meanwhile, he
had conceived the plan of publishing for the use of the clergy a
series of important, older and newer, theological works, at so
moderate a price that they might meet with a wide circulation,
and thus further an earnest and scien