 After studying in Senaide, Jean-Claude Miche attended the seminary of Foucharupt in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges.He was ordained on 5 June 1830 in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges and was sent as a vicar to the parish in Moyenmoutier where his brother Joseph-Victor was the curate.Two years later, he was transferred to Fraize, where he remained until he entered the seminary of the Paris Foreign Missions Society (MEP) on 10 September 1835.