Marcel Bon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marcel Bon

French botanist

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1925

Place of Birth: Villers-sur-Authie, Hauts-de-France, France

Date of Death: 11-May-2014

Profession: pharmacist, university teacher, botanist, mycologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Marcel Bon (17 March 1925 – 11 May 2014) 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.
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.