At the age of twenty, by special dispensation of the Holy See, he was a priest, and served as the youngest of the chaplains of Notre−Dame the altar which is called, because of the late mass which is said there, ~altare pigrorum~.
À vingt ans, par dispense spéciale du saint-siège, il était prêtre, et desservait, comme le plus jeune des chapelains de Notre-Dame, l’autel qu’on appelle, à cause de la messe tardive qui s’y dit, altare pigrorum.