On 5 November 2003, on the evening of the premiere of Subvention, a play by in which he embodied a theater director, he started a hunger strikeLe Monde, 8 novembre 2003.Le Point, 7 November 2013 .Le Parisien, 20 novembre 2013. so that the city of Paris and the Ministry of Culture did not cut subsidies to the "Lucernaire". In 2004, his wife died, and, at age 70, he sold the "Lucernaire" to the group owner of the publishing house L'Harmattan.
