Playing Cards from France
La Sibylle des Salons
La Sibylle des Salons facsimile of 19th century deck published by J M Simon, 1979.
Laboratoires Modernes
Happy Families game by “Laboratoires Modernes” promoting herbal products, c.1929
Languedoc pattern
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by Simon Wintle
The old Languedoc pattern was known at the beginning of the seventeenth century, if not before.
Le Bossu de Notre-Dame
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by Simon Wintle
“Le Bossu de Notre-Dame” families card game published by Ducale (France Cartes), c.1998.
Le Café
Four of the great coffee-producing countries represented in a commemorative pack of playing cards.
Le Destin Antique
Le Jeu du Destin Antique, originally published by Grimaud in XIX c., republished many times since...
Le Florentin
Éditions Philibert published playing cards in Paris from 1954 to 1960 including Le Florentin in Renaissance style.
Le Jeu d’Issy
Bold designs by Jacques Auriac representing people and enterprises for which the town of Issy-les-Moulineaux is famous.
Le Jeu de la Chance
Original designs by French artist Jean Vérame, with clubs replaced by four-leaf clovers to bring good luck.
Le Jeu de Marseille
Having deconstructed traditional, bourgeois playing card symbolism they produced new, liberated designs expressing their own beliefs and values. The court cards were persons expressing new, revolutionary ideals.
Le Jeu de Marseille (Vigno)
Amusing depiction of characters whom you might meet in the city and port of Marseille, as created by Anne Le Dantec.
Le Jeu des 4 Opéras
Characters from five famous operas brought alive in artist Silvia Maddonni’s inimitable style.
Le Jeu des Chats (Dubout)
Cartoon-style illustrations of cats on playing cards created by the French artist Albert Dubout.
Le Jeu des Musiciens
Artist Silvia Maddonni’s gently humorous take on musicians and their instruments.
