Even priests were influenced by the new ideas that appeared in the years after the Bastille was taken (during the French revolution), when the first Republic was being established. The Republic was hard on the priests. ###>Les années qui suivent la prise de la Bastille et les idées nouvelles qui apparaissent alors n'épargnent pas l'ensemble des représentants de l'Eglise officiant sous la première République naissante.