Marcel Bon

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Marcel Bon (17 March 1925 – 11 May 2014){{cite web|url=https://fmbds.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/CAFAM-2014-CR-complet.pdf|title=CAFAM 2014|website=fmbds.org|access-date=20 May 2024}} was one of France's best known field mycologists. He was born in Picardy in 1925 and came to mycology through general botany, and pharmacology.{{cite book | author = Marcel Bon | year = 1987 | title = The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North Western Europe | publisher = Hodder and Stoughton | isbn = 0-340-39935-X}} He lived at Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, a quaint little town on the mouth of the river Somme, in Picardy, Northern France, which was a former artists' and writers' retreat, and is now a popular tourist town.

In 1987, along with two artists (John Wilkinson, and Denys Ovenden) he produced a comprehensive field guide for mycologists, The Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and North-western Europe. His other skills were as a pianist, an artist, and a skier.

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