Hoyle 2007, p. 124. The editor of Déguignet 2004, Bernez Rouz, notes in his introduction that Déguignet lost his faith as a soldier while "on furlough in Jerusalem, […] revolted by the commercial practices around pilgrimage." Hoyle, R. W. (2007). "Review Article: A rare thing: the memoirs of a Breton peasant". Agricultural History Review. 55 (1): 123–125. JSTOR40276132. Déguignet, Jean-Marie (2004). Memoirs of a Breton Peasant. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press. ISBN978-1-583-22616-2.
Hoyle 2007, pp. 123–4. Trying to end the marriage, he portrayed himself to his post-marital landlord as "a republican of the most advanced sort, and in religion a freethinker, a philosophic friend to humankind and … the declared enemy of all gods, who are only imaginary creatures, and priests who are only charlatans and knaves" and attempted to offend the clerics whose sanction of the nuptials was required. See Déguignet 2004, p. 239, and commentary on the remark by Hoyle 2007, p. 124. Hoyle, R. W. (2007). "Review Article: A rare thing: the memoirs of a Breton peasant". Agricultural History Review. 55 (1): 123–125. JSTOR40276132. Déguignet, Jean-Marie (2004). Memoirs of a Breton Peasant. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press. ISBN978-1-583-22616-2. Hoyle, R. W. (2007). "Review Article: A rare thing: the memoirs of a Breton peasant". Agricultural History Review. 55 (1): 123–125. JSTOR40276132.
