Blas or Blaze?


Though La Folie des Grandeurs is a comedy it is loosely based on Victor Hugo's tragic drama Ruy Blas. In the film Don Salluste de Bazan has the same name as in Hugo's work. So I kind of expected that Blas also still would be Blas. However, here on IMDB cast list he's referred to as Blaze, and in the English subtitles of my copy it's also Blaze.

IMO in the dialogues it sounds more like Blas than (the French) Blaze.

So which is it? I read through the film's credits, but they start with just De Funès and Montand's names, without their roles.

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Rome! By all means, Rome.

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