It is a movie that has his feet in Georges Courteline and his head in Jean Racine wrote the critic Jacques Audiberti according to director Bertrand Tavernier in the documentary Blier, Leconte, Tavernier: trois vies de cinéma (2020). Tavernier loved that quote he found in a book by Jérôme Garcin.
French censorship visa #16.679.
Italian censorship visa #20434 delivered on 22 December 1955.