Docteur Lautrec et les Chevaliers Oubliés
Promotional pack for a video game set in late 19th-century Paris, designed by Noriaki Okamura.
Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights is an adventure game for the Nintendo 3DS. It was co-developed by Konami and Winkysoft and designed by Noriaki Okamura. The game is set in late 19th-century Paris and follows the protagonist, archaeologist Doctor Lautrec (KH), on his quest for a hidden treasure of the Bourbon dynasty. Lautrec’s assistant is Sophie Coubertin (QH), a university student. These and other prominent characters are featured on the 12 court cards. The jokers appear to show various Knights of the Iron Mask, an order of knights with iron masks and claws, who pursue Doctor Lautrec and Sophie through Paris and its catacombs.
Several prominent 19th-century French personalities may well have provided the inspiration for the characters’ names, notably Lautrec (after the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec [1864-1901]), Vidocq (after the detective and chief of police Eugène-François Vidocq [1775-1857]), and Coubertin (after the founder of the modern Olympic Games Pierre de Coubertin [1863-1937]).
Above: Docteur Lautrec et les Chevaliers Oubliés promotional pack for a video game set in late 19th-century Paris, designed by Noriaki Okamura. Made in France, 2011, 52 cards + 3 Jokers. Size: 55 x 84 mm.
By Roddy Somerville
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Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.
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