He then abdicates on November 30, 1793 in order to get married. Antoine Sylvestre Bragouse de Saint-Sauveur, born in a newly converted family, takes refuge in his hometown during the revolutionary events and then becomes interim parish priest (1794). Named Archpriest of the Cathedral of Mende in 1803, he later became bishop with the support of Napoleon. Jean Vernon, who held an itinerant and underground ministry disguised as furrier during the Terror period, succeeds him at the parish of Meyrueis (1803-1805).