TheBoost said:

So I've been spending a lot of time working on the David Eddings Wiki, about the fantasy author. A lot of it has been collecting images of international covers of his books.

What is UP with the French? All the covers are weird, random images. Cat people, surreal Dali-esque landscapes, naked duded. Nothing to do with the very standard sword/sorcery novels they put these covers on.

Stupid frenchies.

I think you need to look at old 1960's-70's SF/Fantasy paperback covers. (If I had a buck for every novel I ever bought/read with a cool monster or naked babe on the cover that's not in the story...) However, the infamous graphic magazine Heavy Metal is based on a French one called Metal Hurlant, which is chock full of such imagery.

Also, Jerry Lewis...