He was busy consoling a monarch for the loss of his throne, and preparing himself and his royal patron for the scaffold.
The Convent of the Ursulines was scattered during the Terror.

Everyone remembers the Thermidor massacres, and the thirty-four nuns, all daughters of ancient families of France, who went so cheerfully to the scaffold.
Juliette was one of those who escaped condemnation.

How or why, she herself could not have told.

She was very young, and still a postulant; she was allowed to live in retirement with Petronelle, her old nurse, who had remained faithful through all these years.
Then the Archbishop was prosecuted and imprisoned.

Juliette made frantic efforts to see him, but all in vain.