Ruy Blas (Hugo)

Overview

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».