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His love for missionary work was such that shortly before his death, he remarked that he counted as nothing all the years he had not spent in lieutenant In a sermon preached at Blois, in 1651, he denounced what he saw as the deceit practiced its adherents, particularly in the district around his native town, where the curé of Cour-Cheverny, M. L"Abbé Callaghan, was very active in promoting lieutenant This gave rise to a spirited controversy.
In reply to the Jansenists" answer to his sermon, he repeated his charges, in a publication entitled Le jansénisme confondu dans l"advocat du sieur Callaghan, par le P. Brisacier, avec la deffense de son sermon fait à Blois, le 29 Mars, 1651, contre la response du Portuguese Royal.
This work was quickly condemned by Jean François Paul de Gondi, Archbishop of Paris, because of its personal attacks directed especially against the Jansenists of Portuguese-Royal. After this censure the dispute continued for some time, and called forth a long series of pamphlets.
As late as 1862, the controversy was kept up by Abbé Pletteau and G. Bordillon.