Ruy Blas (Hugo)
Also known as: Ruy Blas
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Ruy Blas (1838), verse drama by Victor Hugo, in which a lackey loves the Queen of Spain (footnotes at 095.0318 and 103.0416). Not Marchetti's opera after it (RUY_BLAS_MARCHETTI).
References in Diary
- 095.0318 (July 1882) and 103.0416 (February 1884): the play invoked for a love across ranks (footnotes there).
- 096.0257 (September 1882): among the books «auxquels on a recours dans les moments tristes ou de paresse»: «Des Balzac, des Dumas père, Paul et Virginie, Ruy Blas, Byron, Montaigne, Rabelais, Dante».
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