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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... French tarot refers to both French tarot games and French card pack designs of the tarot type ...
The name Tarot de Marseille is not of particularly ancient vintage; it was coined as late as 1856 by the French card historian Romain Merlin, and was popularized by French cartomancers Eliphas Levi, Gérard Encausse, and Paul Marteau who used this collective name to refer to a variety of closely related designs that were being made in the city of Marseilles in the south of France, a city that ...
Card values in French Tarot. The game is played using a 78-card tarot deck. This deck is composed of: 21 numbered trump cards (atouts), and 1 unnumbered trump card: the "Excuse" or "Fool" (L'excuse or Fou) 3 of these trumps, known as oudlers, have particular importance: the 1 of trumps, the 21 of trumps and the "Excuse" (or Fool).
A complete Tarot deck such as one for French Tarot contains the full 78-card complement. It can be used to play any game in the family, with the exception of Minchiate, an extinct game that used 97 cards. Austrian-Hungarian Tarock and Italian Tarocco decks are a smaller subset, of 63, 54, 40, or even 36 cards, suitable only for games of a ...
French-suited tarot decks are known as the oldest decks used for the Tarot. With the exception of novelty decks, French-suited tarot cards are almost exclusively used for card games. The earliest French-suited tarot decks were made by the de Poilly family of engravers, beginning with a Minchiate deck by François de Poilly in the late
Tarot card games are played with a Tarock pack, usually of 54 or 78 cards comprising four French suits and a special trump suit of Tarots or Tarocks. The following games are played with such packs: The following games are played with such packs:
Queens began appearing in Italian tarot decks in the mid-15th century and some German decks replaced two kings with queens. While other decks abandoned the queen in non-tarot decks, the French kept them and dropped the knight as the middle face card. Face card design was heavily influenced by Spanish cards that used to circulate in France.
Stripped French 32-card deck. 24-card stripped decks are often sold in Germany and Austria for Schnapsen. These decks go from nines to aces in each suit. Doubled versions of this deck (2x24) are used to play Pinochle and Doppelkopf. 32-card packs have ranks seven through ace in each suit and are very common in Europe.