 During these wanderings he wrote his novel, "Le peintre de Salzbourg, journal des émotions d'un coeur souffrant, suivi des Meditations du cloître" (1803).The hero, Charles, who is a variation of the Werther type, desires the restoration of the monasteries, to afford a refuge from the woes of the world.At Dole in 1808, on August 31, he married Désirée Charve.