Ben Jonson will appear a line after a popular instant coffee blend has been mentioned, Dante will be found next to a mime artist, Marcel Marceau, and Lawes himself figures auditioning for Ronnie Scott.

ECONOMIST: Hard work-but worth it

Parts of all this went into the making of him, as well as the imaginings of the young Marcel Marceau, in Strasbourg in the 1930s, trying on his father's long trousers and contorting his body to make his friends laugh.

ECONOMIST: Bip

They shoot a lot of movies there: My heart throbbed when we saw the 13th-century kitchen into which Sophie Marceau rode on horseback in La Fille de d'Artagnan, but it could have been the onset of arteriosclerosis from that day's ration of goose fat.

FORBES: How foie gras was my valley