There is no commercial purpose to it or intention to advance the blog for financial reward. This is the last post, completed on 6 May 2020 (excepting a possible revision being planned for some of the islands on the west coast not visited and not perhaps adequately covered).
The principle stimuli were as follows:
Jean Benoît Héron and his superb water colour illustrations of France's lights and lighthouses together with his supporting envisionment of position and light characteristic, often in a comparative style. I'd like to acknowledge his contribution here with thanks. His agendas/calendars, postcards, posters, charts and book are a continuing source of pleasure and enlightenment. The quest for missing items, postcards and posters in particular, goes on.
The Lighthouse Directory. This is the most comprehensive source of world lighthouse information there is, made freely available by Russ Rowlett, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics and Retired Professor of Education at ibiblio.org, one of the largest free information databases online, maintained as a public service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It is brought up to date wherever possible and promotes an appreciation of lighthouses world wide. I'd like to acknowledge this source here, with thanks.
Within the Lighthouse Directory I have found photographs collected by Alexander Trabas to be of a consistently high standard. I'd like to acknowledge this source here as well and acknowledge the small number of images I've borrowed to support my text in post numbers 72, 86/7/8/9.
Klaus Heulse's historic postcard and photograph collection has been drawn on throughout so thanks to him for the scope to do that and to copy in the appropriate links.
Stéphane Bossis is also an illustrator using elevation perspectives to create renditions of lighthouses. I used three of them in this blog and I acknowledge his contribution here.
The French Lights Application published by A. Déchorgnat and to which I have contributed a few lighthouse images, has also been a source, particularly of light ranges and sometimes locational information; I'd like to acknowledge this source here.
I have included several small map extracts to clarify the positions of some lighthouses, principally taken from old sheet maps published by IGN France; and three or four small extractions from The Michelin Road Atlas of France 2014 and 2020 editions. I'd like to acknowledge these sources here.
Although I have consulted a number of books in connection with this blog, the information gleaned therefrom was simply factual. In addition, The Guide des Phares des Côtes de France (Xavier Mével) was a source for three historic images I could not find elsewhere and for two line renditions by Kim Savina. Acknowledged here with thanks.
And of course I must thank my editor in chief Mme Mary Melling for her editorial advice, technical know-how, translation services and dismissive acceptance when I have had to impose my authorial rights to say what I damn-well please. I extend similar thanks too to the son-and-heir Adam Melling-Smith who has undertaken similar tasks from afar… and to both for supplying, I think three photographs in total was it?— while all the others you will see in the ninety posts of this epic work are all mine. As is the design and typography.
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