But in 1553 we find him imprisoned in the Chatelet for sodomy and in danger of his life, so that he thought of starving himself to death.

Friends, however, obtained his release and he settled in Toulouse.

But the very next year he was burnt in effigy in Toulouse, as a Huguenot and sodomist, this being the result of a judicial sentence which had caused him to flee from the city and from France.

Four years later he had to flee from Padua owing to a similar accusation.

He had many friends but none of them protested against the charge, though they aided him to escape from the penalty.