He arrived in Canada that July and spent the next two years as chaplain to Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal.

[1] He was appointed superior of the Seminary of Lisieux in France, became a director of the Séminaire des Missions Étrangères, and was sent to Rome as procurator-general.

He was made procurator general for the apostolic vicars of the East Indies and consecrated titular Bishop of Samos by Pope Benedict XIII in December 1725.

He offended both the governor and the intendant by getting the Minister of Marine to forbid them free access to the convents; and he was zealous for the suppression of the liquor traffic.

A patron and benefactor of the Congregation of the Holy Sirit, he confided almost exclusively to it the missions of Acadia, the islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Cape Breton, Newfoundland, and probably Labrador.

He rewarded that congregation by generous endowments, including Sarcelle, a property near Paris, which until the Revolution yielded an annual revenue of 3000 livres.