LES MERVEILLEUX EPHEMERES DES RIVIERES DE FRANCE ET D'AILLEURS. By Jacques Le Doare and Paul Troel.

(2012) 2016 2nd edition. 4to paperback (191 x 250mm). Pp288. Colour illustrations of natural flies by Paul Troel, colour photographs and diagrams. Preface by Michel Brulin. One of 500 numbered copies.

"The Marvellous Ephemera Of The Rivers Of France And Elsewhere." Text in French. First published in 2016, this is the up-dated and enlarged second edition. This is an interesting compendium of the Mayflies of France, plus some others of interest to anglers. Besides the entomological material, the text contains examples and discussion of historical examples of Mayfly species in art and illustration going back to the mediaeval era. Chapters include: Note sur l'illustration; Taxinomie; Le cycle biologique des ephemere; Structuration et classification of watercourses; Les ephemeres de France; Premieres emergences; Fou You l'ephemere; Un animal pourvu de quatre ailes et quatre pattes; Claude Elien, la controverse; Quelques lignes sur la litterature halieutique; Mayflies; Le pecheur et l'ephemere; Premieres illustrations; Permieres observations; Les pecheurs naturalistes; Morceaux d'ephemeres; Bibliographie; Correspondance noms anglais et latins. Jacques Le Doare wrote the text on the biology of the Ephemerae. Paul Troel wrote the rest, and illustrated, designed and published the book.