François-Edmond Fortier

He published over 3500 postcards of French West Africa[1] (Afrique Occidentale Française).

Born in the tiny village of Plaine, France in 1862, François-Edmond Fortier lived for several years in Saint-Louis, Senegal then moved to Dakar in 1900.

François-Edmond Fortier spent his late years in his shop on the corner of Boulevard Pinet-Laprade/Rue Dagornein the Médina de Dakar.

He was a small man, blonde, with little beard "pointu" and always wore a pointed military topi.

(The Cantal my cradle, Dakar.. my tomb)[citation needed] nw url:www.edmondfortier.nl