A point of contact for English Catholics with Cardinal Richelieu, some of whose works he translated, he was also a founder of the St Augustin convent in Paris.
Afterward, he was appointed procurator of the college, and he held that office till 1634, when he undertook the project of founding a monastery of canonesses of St Augustin at Paris, where he resided as their confessor until his death.
After a seizure with a palsy he became almost paralysed for nearly twelve years before his death, which occurred in the monastery, then situated in the Rue des Fossés Saint Victor, Paris, on 31 October 1674.
[2] Arras College in Paris was in 1667 much expanded by him, though it was not completed till many years later, when Dr. John Betham was appointed to preside over it.
Carre was respected by the court of France, especially by Cardinal Richelieu, who was a munificent benefactor to the English Catholics abroad through his mediation.