Paget was consecrated to succeed Mgr. Biord. Paget would be the last bishop to retain the geographically misleading title, Bishop of Geneva. He lost little time in reappointing Bigex to the leading administrative position of diocesan vicar general. Revolution years Although most of the diocese was within the Duchy of Savoy, approximately 20% of it was not. Part of it was inside France, which during the early 1790s fell into a state of widespread and increasingly violent turmoil following the 1789 revolution. Bishop Paget and his vicar general were accordingly to try to maintain diocesan control over the church in a part of Eastern France, which meant continuing to publish pastoral letters and instructions in contravention of innovations introduced by the revolutionary National Constituent Assembly and the National Legislative Assembly which replaced it during 1791. However, the real crisis arrived only in September 1792 when the French citizen armies, without having issued any formal declaration of war, arrived to export their revolution under the leadership of Anne-Pierre de Montesquiou-Fézensac, a slightly unexpected military commander under the circumstances, who fell out with the increasingly radical and intolerant revolutionary government in Paris at around the same time that Savoy was formally annexed, in November 1792. Bishop Paget hastened across to Piedmont before winter blocked the mountain passes, to continue his ecclesiastical duties from Turin, while Vicar-general Bigex relocated to Lausanne, which at this stage was still a (reluctant) bailiwick of Bern. From Lausanne Bigex was able to watch over his "flock" of church members back in the occupied former Duchy of Savoy who found themselves in very great danger. He supported them with frequent exhortations and through the zeal of evangelising priests who risked their own lives by secretly distribution the practical tools for practicing the faith, whose difficult and dangerous missions he directed and co-ordinated, providing them with instruction appropriate to the terrible times through which the church and its congregations were passing. Very few weeks passed by when the diocesan clergy did not receive advices and communications of comfort and consolation, helping them in the vital matter of keeping The Faith. The political and military situation in Lausanne was very far from stable between his arrival in 1792 and the Concordat of 1801. There were times when Bigex was obliged to leave the city. At one point, when the French invaded Switzerland under General Buonaparte during the first part of