Ruy Blas makes an effort to obtain the phone numbers of public phones in Bombay, and also tries to twin a bench in Nice with another bench in Bombay. He is told that the public phones in Bombay do not give their phone numbers and that benches are not really a part of the urban terrain there.

If this action had been completed, Ruy Blas would have certainly established a telephone bridge between the nameless crowds of Nice and those of Bombay.

These attempts place themselves among the actions undertaken by Ruy Blas to make Nice a world capital of art.