Henry of Bergen's journey to Italy was cancelled, and Erasmus's years with him were frustrating, although he became an accomplished poet and discovered a manuscript of Augustine which gave him great joy. In 1495 he was released by the bishop to go to Paris where he became a poor scholar at the Collège de Montaigu, recently reformed by Standonck and linked in spirit with the Brethren of the Common Life. The discipline was harsh, the food bad, the conditions dirty and the asceticism obligatory and rigorous. Furthermore, the orthodoxy was Scotist. Erasmus broke down and was cured, he declared, not by the help of the doctor but by the intercession of St. Geneviève. He returned to the bishop and then to Steyn, where he was encouraged to return to Paris. This time he took private lodgings.