Riseholme (fictional village) Poppy, Duchess of Sheffield, at nearby Sheffield Castle (which Benson located at "Sheffield Bottom"—unconnected to the Yorkshire Sheffield). It was revealed in "Mapp and Lucia" that Lucia's great rival in Tilling, Elizabeth Mapp ("Miss Mapp", 1922) had once visited Riseholme and stayed at the Ambermere Arms. She also hijacked Lucia's "au reservoir" (for "au revoir") and presented it to Tilling society as her own. Cynthia and Tony Revell (1984) "Mr Benson remembered in Rye, and the world of Tilling" cited Sir Steven Runciman (1903–2000), a Cambridge historian who knew Benson well, and Benson's manservant Charlie Tomalin (d.1981) for the assertion
Science & Vie these three sections, "Science & Vie" contained a section on amateur electronics by Henri-Pierre Penel, a section on amateur astronomy "La Calculette de l'Astronome", and two sections on computer programming in BASIC, one on video games (first for the Sinclair ZX 81, and then the ZX Spectrum) and another of elementary numerical analysis, "Le Micro de l'Ingénieur" (with listings for the Apple II). This made "Science & Vie" a more popular magazine (both in terms of circulation and in terms of the level of education of its readers) than "La Recherche" or "Pour la Science" which are only concerned with