Les Murray is interviewed in today's "Age" by Jane Sullivan and reveals that his great-great-grandfather's brother founded the House of Worth in Paris.
Odd how these things turn up. Reminds me of the time I got a funny look from a visiting American friend when I told her, at the footy as it happens, that the bloke playing full-forward for St Kilda (Fraser Gehrig) was related to the baseballer, Lou, of the same family name.