 On 1 December 1561 he agreed to engrave 36 plates illustrating the Old Testament for the dealer Antoine God, and these appeared in 1580.Influenced by the poet , he became a Protestant.Between 1566 and 1571 he illustrated the "Emblemes ou devises chrestiennes" by Georgette de Montenay, lady-in-waiting to Jeanne d'Albret, mother of Henry IV of France.