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Despite the centralized control of religious practice by the newly created consistories imposed by the imperial government, private prayer meetings continued to be held. This paper considers the case of a Hebraic teacher, Lévi Aron Sauphar, who kept his school open but separate from the Paris Consistory from 1822 to 1835 and reopened it as soon as it was closed. Who was he? What is known about his origins and family environment? What was his aim in life? What audience and segment of religious opinion did he address? Beyond Lévi Aron Sauphar and his attitude as an opponent to the Paris Consistory, there emerges an environment that remains almost unknown, that of a small community of Paris and of its evolution during the first third of the 19th century.