He moved it in 1753 to Fulham High Street (possibly on the site now home to building numbers 49-55) with the idea of a 'youth training scheme', where the Gobelins Manufactory had already been established. He eventually returned to France, under the name Abbé Platel, visiting Germany and Portugal while undergoing persecution. After returning to France, he again wrote and published his principal work "History of the Society of Jesus, from its first foundation by Ignatius Loyola" in six volumes.