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I've never been to France, so I'm just going to assume these predictions and illustrations are mostly accurate.
theadvancedapes · 4582 days ago · link ·
haha possibly. It's remarkable how obsessed they were with using aquatic animals in the ocean.
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That's really what makes this so interesting in the first place. It leaves you wondering what the sea (etc.) represented to 1900s France that would make them fixate on it: near enough to always be present and visible, but mysterious and unknown enough that their wildest aspirations were to one day explore it and figure it out. In this context, it's almost the way spiritual people of any denomination might depict themselves reaching the afterlife promised by their belief system.