The scene of his labours for fifteen years was Languedoc, the Vivarais, and Dauphine.
It is this district that from the end of the 13th century was called the Dauphine d'Auvergne.
From 1791, however, the Cordeliers met in a hall in the rue Dauphine.
When the spring had come, being still very poor and in feeble health, he started homewards on foot by Florence, across the Apennines, through Bologna, Parma, Piacenza, Turin, over the Alps, through Savoy and Dauphine to Lyons, andfinally to Paris, where he arrived in excellent health.
Attacked in Dauphine and Piedmont at the same time, the Vaudois were hard pressed; but luckily their enemies were encircled by a fog when marching upon their chief refuge in the valley of the Angrogne, and were repulsed with great loss.