Guy Boistel, L'astronomie nautique au XVIIIe siècle en France: tables de la Lune et longitudes en mer (2001), vol. 1, p. 264, showing for example that Lalande in Paris incorporated lunar distances into the long-established 'Connaissance des Temps' as from the issue for 1774 (published 1772) – initially as a copy of the English lunar-distance data, and still based on the Greenwich meridian as in the Nautical Almanac itself, moving later to lunar-distance data independently calculated for the meridian of Paris.
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D. Howse, Nevil Maskelyne – The Seaman's Astronomer, Cambridge, 1989, esp. at p. 87; also, on p. 90, Howse points out that the idea of an almanac with lunar distances had previously been proposed in France, by De Lalande in the French almanac Connoissance des temps pour l'année 1761 au méridien de Paris (published 1759), based on Lacaille's work on lunar distance. He had provided a sample table of pre-computed lunar distances for fourteen days of July 1761, tabulated at 4-hour intervals, and promised more to come, but the proposal was not further implemented there.
