He was beatified as a member of that group on 17 October 1926 by Pope Pius XI.
In 1781, he was summoned by his first cousin (maternal), Monseigneur Jean Marie du Lau, the archbishop of Arles, to become vicar general.
In 1787, he received the Abbey of Solignac, near Limoges as a benefice, being the last in the line of abbots there.
During the French Revolution, he refused to take the oath demanded by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, and "swear to be faithful to the nation and to maintain liberty and equality or die defending it".
He was among the 191 clergy who were either bayoneted or impaled on pikes on the threshold of the monastery on 2 September 1792.