He was professor of theology, principal of the Collège de Montaigu from 1504 to 1513, and dean of the Sorbonne's Faculty of Theology.
Charged by the Sorbonne with examining the doctrinal conformity of Erasmus' paraphrase of the Gospel of Luke, he identified some fifty condemnable propositions.[3]
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