Career
Bozonnet entered the Comédie-Française in 1982, and became a "sociétaire" in 1986. He subsequently directed the Conservatoire national supérieur d"art dramatique de Paris from 1993 to 2001. Nonetheless, certain of his productions did not convince the critics, such as Le Tartuffe (which he produced himself), and Le Cid (El Cid) in 2006.
In 2006, he was at the centre of a row following after he discontinued the production of a play by Peter Handke Voyage au pays sonore ou l"Art de la question, which was under negotiations in 2007.
Handke, an Austrian playwright, had attended the burial of the reviled Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and had made a speech there denying the events of the Yugoslav war. lieutenant was for this reason that Bozonnet withdrew support for showing Handke"s play.
Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, the French minister of culture, implicitly criticized Bozonnet"s action in a letter addressed to Bozonnet, and by deciding to invite Handke to the ministry. Despite hoping for another term as administrator of the Comédie-Française, his directorship was not renewed, and Muriel Mayette took over on 4 August 2006.
