While there he married a lady with a fortune, bought a library, and began a new French translation of the Bible, at which he continued to work throughout his life.
[1] Le Cène's ministry at Honfleur ceased by his own request on 2 September 1682, and in the following year he officiated temporarily at Charenton.
But the Huguenots in England were soon involved in controversy on doctrinal questions, and Le Cène's Soc views rendered him unpopular.
In 1686 or 1687 Jacques Gousset heard him preach in London in an unorthodox and Arminian sense, and the congregation expressed dissatisfaction.
His son, Michel-Charles, who on 30 September 1699 was received as a member of the church at Amsterdam, followed him to London in December 1706, and remained in England till 1718.