He supported the striking workers of the blast furnaces in Brocéliande, which were about to shut down due to the opening of international trade by Napoleon III and technological innovation.

He met the owner of the forge, Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale, who was exiled to England after the revolution of 1848.

This served as a pretext for the church to oust him, despite a petition by the parishioners, for Fouré was a militant.

According to Joëlle Jouneau, head of cultural projects in the Association of Friends of the Works of Abbot Fouré: "Deafness is the official reason, but it's more complex.

He began to decorate his house, which he called Haute Folie ("High Madness"), with wooden sculptures.

The sculpted rocks depicted the Breton saints Budoc and Gobrien de Vannes.

He depicted historical figures such as Napoleon, Cleopatra, and the Queen of Sheba, alongside events of his own time, like the Boer War.

And I began to sculpt the stone on a daily basis.Stricken with paralysis and speech difficulties, he forced to cease his activities in 1907.