It was only towards the end of 1812, as the cream of the French army met with its Moscow nemesis, that Antoine Martinet felt able to return once more across the Alps to Savoy. This time he would stay. He had barely arrived when of Chambéry invited him to deliver the Advent sermon in the cathedral. Directly after that Martinet was given responsibility for the curacy of Maché, an inner suburban parish in Chambéry.