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Marseille

Édition Lequart, Paris, before 1890 · Lequart, Paris

A Marseille-pattern pack of the Besançon type, printed in Paris by Lequart before 1890 and once owned by Paul Marteau. It is a card game before it is anything else: the trumps carry titles, the suit cards carry only their signs.

This deck publishes no meanings, and none are supplied for it here. Marseille packs were printed for play, and the divinatory readings attached to them by Etteilla and his successors came later and from outside — presenting those as this deck's own would date them a century too early.

Its twenty-two trumps → Its fifty-six suit cards → Deal a spread with it →

The pictures

Printed before 1890 and long out of copyright. Digitised by the Bibliothèque nationale de France from the Paul Marteau collection and released as public domain.

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What it calls things

Suits
Baton · Coupe · Épée · Denier
Court ranks
Valet · Cavalier · Reyne · Roy

Trumps this deck renames

Filed as In this deck Numeral
The Fool Le Mat
The Magician Le Bateleur I
The High Priestess Junon II
The Empress L'Impératrice III
The Emperor L'Empereur IIII
The Hierophant Jupiter V
The Lovers L'Amoureux VI
The Chariot Le Chariot VII
Strength La Force XI
The Hermit L'Hermite VIIII
Wheel of Fortune La Roue de Fortune X
Justice La Justice VIII
The Hanged Man Le Pendu XII
Death XIII XIII
The Devil Le Diable XV
The Tower La Maison Dieu XVI
The Star L'Étoile XVII
The Moon La Lune XVIII
The Sun Le Soleil XVIIII
Judgement Le Jugement XX
The World Le Monde XXI

The trumps

  1. 0 Le Mat
  2. I Le Bateleur
  3. II Junon
  4. III L'Impératrice
  5. IIII L'Empereur
  6. V Jupiter
  7. VI L'Amoureux
  8. VII Le Chariot
  9. XI La Force
  10. VIIII L'Hermite
  11. X La Roue de Fortune
  12. VIII La Justice
  13. XII Le Pendu
  14. XIII XIII
  15. XIIII Temperance
  16. XV Le Diable
  17. XVI La Maison Dieu
  18. XVII L'Étoile
  19. XVIII La Lune
  20. XVIIII Le Soleil
  21. XX Le Jugement
  22. XXI Le Monde