Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A shekara ta 1671, an nada de Bryas bishop na Saint-Omer a matsayin magajin Ladislas Jonart, wanda aka fassara shi zuwa Cambrai. Ya mallaki kujerar ta hanyar wakili a ranar 11 ga Afrilu 1672 kuma ya shiga cikin kujerar a ranar 11 ga Yuni 1672. Bayan mutuwar Jonart, de Bryas ya sake maye gurbinsa, yanzu a matsayin babban bishop na Cambrai, inda aka sanya shi a ranar 28 ga Oktoba, 1675. Watanni goma sha takwas bayan haka, Louis XIV na Faransa ya mallaki birnin a ƙarshen Siege na Cambrai
, kuma ta hanyar Yarjejeniyar Nijmegen Habsburgs sun ba da masarautar Cambrai ga ikon Faransa. Wani rahoto ga sabon sarki ya bayyana babban bishop a matsayin cin abinci kawai daga kayan tebur na tin, da kuma ciyar da lokacinsa na ziyartar marasa lafiya da fursunoni.