His exorcisms and his battles against the incubi, especially in the female convents, ruined him.
"Ah, I remember the last time I saw him, as if it were yesterday.

I met him in the rue Grenelle coming out of the Archbishop's house, the day he quitted the Church, after a scene which he told me all about.

Again I can see that priest walking with me along the deserted boulevard des Invalides.

He was pale, and his defeated but impressive voice trembled.
He had been summoned and commanded to explain his actions in the case of an epileptic woman whom he claimed to have cured with the aid of a relic, the seamless robe of Christ preserved at Argenteuil.

The Cardinal, assisted by two grand vicars, listened to him, standing.
"When he had likewise furnished the information which they demanded about his cures of witch spells, Cardinal Guibert said, 'You had best go to La Trappe.' "And I remember word for word his reply, 'If I have violated the laws of the Church, I am ready to undergo the penalty of my fault.