Can-can was designed by Pierre Albarran, the world-famous bridge- (and tennis) player. Pierre Albarran played two times in the Davis Cup tennis-team for France, and won a bronze medal in the Antwerp summer olympics in 1920 (in doubles), but he became much better known as a contract bridge player. At Bridge, he was French champion 19 times (!!!) and played in 32 international matches for France ... For many years, he organized and directed the annual bridge tournament held in Monte Carlo. He ranking first in the 1935 Brussels World-tounament for teams. He was a columnist on bridge for several French newspapers and authored several books on bridge. Perre Albarran was referred to as 'The Aristocrat of Bridge'. He died on 24 February 1960, at the age of 66. Pierre Albarran's biggest contribution to the game of Bridge is a theory for a bidding systems that includes the 'Canapé approach' and the convention that was later called "Roman two-suiter". And of course he has designed this beautiful 'Can-can'-deck. His technique in Bridge was to sometimes also bid on hands that he could not really win, thus surprising the adversaries and nevertheless winning the hand, which led him to the famous expression : "A pokerface is not limited to the only game of Poker ..." Further information on Pierre Albarran can easely be found on wikipedia, or any website dedicated to Bridge.

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