At the end of the year 1789, he left to play in the French West Indies, especially in Saint-Domingue (today Haiti) with some other artists of the troupe led by the dancer Placide. But the Haitian Revolution forced him to return to France. He arrived in Bordeaux in 1791 and built a room he called "Théâtre du Vaudeville-Variétés". Accused of being "moderate" by the revolutionaries in Bordeaux, he left the city and traveled to Nantes and in Paris in 1795, at the Théâtre de la Cité.