Société bibliographique (France) (1907). L'épiscopat français p. 350. Briey was one of the leaders of the ultramontane faction among the bishops of France in 1904-1905: Jean-Pierre Chantin; Daniel Moulinet (2005). La séparation de 1905: les hommes et le lieux (in French). Paris: Editions de l'Atelier. p. 54. ISBN978-2-7082-3786-5. He died during the night of 11/12 December 1909.