Famous
pipe lovers –
Mark Twain who put one in the hands of
Tom Sawyer
– Rudyard Kipling who used to buy
his personal blend of tobacco at Dunhill’s
–
Jean Giono who meditated greatly on it
– Rimbaud
who appeared with a Dutch pipe between
his teeth (Oraison du soir)
–
Mallarmé who wrote how much the
pipe nourished him with recollections and
dreams
–
William Somerset Maugham, Apollinaire,
Jean-Paul Sartre, Günter Grass, George
Sand…
Famous
fictitious characters
– Commissaire
Maigret, the police superintendent,
Sherlock Holmes
And
also
poets and essayists:
Arthur Rimbaud, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Charles Lamb
writers: Georges
Simenon, Sinclair Lewis
painters who immortalised their
pipe: Van Gogh, Manet, Magritte, Picasso,
Gustave Courbet (Self portrait with a
black dog)
artists: Georges Brassens,
Bing Crosby, Clark Gable
politicians: General
MacArthur, Pierre Trudeau
scientists and scholars: Robert
Oppenheimer, Konrad Lorentz, Albert Einstein
("Before answering a question, one
should always light one’s pipe."),
Bertrand Russell ("He who lives
without tobacco is not worthy of living"),
Karl Gustav Jung etc.
