About the Cover Illustration
The figure on the cover of Apache Cordova in Action is captioned “A Shepherd from Gonesse, France.” The illustration is taken from a collection of traditional French costumes by Nicolas Bonnart (1637-1717). The drawings are hand-colored engravings on paper that depict the various styles of dress popular in Paris and its suburbs in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Gonesse is a small town about 15 kilometers northeast of Paris.
Dress codes and lifestyles have changed over the last 300 years, and the diversity by region, so rich at the time, has faded away. It is now hard to tell apart the inhabitants of different continents, let alone of different hamlets or towns separated by only a few miles. Perhaps we ...
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