About the Cover Illustration
The figure on the cover of Netty in Action is captioned “A Resident of the Luxembourg Quarter.” The illustration is taken from a nineteenth-century collection of works by many artists, edited by Louis Curmer and published in Paris in 1841. The title of the collection is Les Français peints par eux-mêmes, which translates as The French People Painted by Themselves. Each illustration is finely drawn and colored by hand and the rich variety of drawings in the collection reminds us vividly of how culturally apart the world’s regions, towns, villages, and neighborhoods were just 200 years ago. Isolated from each other, people spoke different dialects and languages. In the streets or in the countryside, it was easy to ...
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