About the Cover Illustration
The figure on the cover of Ant in Action is a “Paysan de Bourg de Batz,” an inhabitant from the city of Batz in Brittany, France, located on the Atlantic coast. The illustration is taken from the 1805 edition of Sylvain Maréchal’s four-volume compendium of regional dress customs. This book was first published in Paris in 1788, one year before the French Revolution.
The colorful diversity of the illustrations in the collection speaks vividly of the uniqueness and individuality of the world’s towns and regions just 200 years ago. This was a time when the dress codes of two regions separated by a few dozen miles identified people uniquely as belonging to one or the other. The collection brings to life a sense of isolation ...
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