Education
Billaudèle received extensive education and religious training and became an educator as the director of the Petit Séminaire de Charleville, where he had studied.
Billaudèle received extensive education and religious training and became an educator as the director of the Petit Séminaire de Charleville, where he had studied.
He became a Sulpician there during his tenure. He moved from there to the Grand Séminaire de Clermont-Ferrand where he spent a number of years before accepting an appointment to Montreal. He was soon made the director of the first Grand Séminaire de Montréal.
He was eventually succeeded by Joseph-Alexandre Baile in that position.
In 1846 he had been elected superior of the Sulpicians in Canada replacing Joseph-Vincent Quiblier.