At age nineteen, Brother Romon joined the Novitiate at Lyon, France. From 1834 to 1841 he attended classes at Autun and upon completion was asked by the Superior General to work in the "houses of detention" requested of the Brothers by the government of France. As a pioneer in this work, Brother Romon, from January 1842 until October 1848, was chief of the division, comptroller, pro-director, then Director successively at Nimes, Mely, and finally in Aniane. In 1848 he was sent to Montreal, Canada, where he opened the first school in that city. He remained there until 1864 when he returned to his homeland. He died at Ajaccio, France, on January 3, 1885, at age seventy-one and in his fifty-second year as a De La Salle Christian Brother.
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