Notes
1 Monaque, L’école de guerre navale, 102.
2 Hood, Royal Republicans.
3 Translation from original French. Journal officiel de la République française 331, 6 Dec. 1899, 7878.
4 Foreign Navies collection – French Navy, Ministère de la Marine, École Supérieure de Marine, Histoire maritime de la France. Conférences de G. Lacour-Gayet, 1903.
5 Mott, Une éducation géostratégique, 493– 6; Canuel, ‘From a Prestige Fleet to the Jeune École’, 111.
6 Translation from original French. Journal officiel de la République française 250, 25 Sep. 1910, 7669.
7 Walser, France’s Search for a Battle Fleet, 184.
8 Harley, ‘War Course Attendance at Greenwich’, 472–4. The war course moved away from Greenwich in 1905, then rotated between three locations until the Royal Naval War College was established. Dickinson, Wisdom of War, 93.
9 Bibliothèque nationale de France: https:// gallica.bnf.fr/accueil/en. France’s national library, which has digitized over 9 million sources, has an arrangement with the French defence historical service to make available some main holdings at Vincennes and various associated departmental and regional libraries.
10 Monaque, L’école de guerre navale, 383–4.
11 Taillemite, Dictionnaire des marins français.