In 1825, on the completion of his college course in an institution of his native town, Bouix entered the Society of Jesus at Avignon, with his brother Marcel, and later taught the classics and occupied chairs of philosophy and theology in houses of the order.
In 1842, when he was on the eve of his solemn profession, the precarious condition of his health rendered a continuance of the religious life impossible, and he obtained permission to retire from the society.
This necessary withdrawal was a great disappointment to Bouix, who to the end of his life maintained the most cordial relations with his former brethren in religion, and received from them many evidences of a reciprocal regard.
[1] This event determined him to devote his life to dispelling the prejudices and errors which he believed had largely infected the clergy of France in regard to matters of law and discipline.
The next year, when the royal exequatur came up for discussion in the French Senate, and Darboy advocated there the Gallican view, Bouix answered with a publication which contested the correctness of the archbishop's contentions.
[1] Besides many articles, contributed to newspapers and reviews, especially to the Revue des sciences ecclésiastiques, he wrote:[1] Several of his works were honoured with pontifical letters of commendation, and most of his canonical treatises went through several editions.