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Tarot card reading is a form of cartomancy whereby practitioners use tarot cards to purportedly gain insight into the past, present or future. They formulate a question, then draw cards to interpret them for this end.
The Queen of Batons ("PALAS") from the Sola-Busca Tarot Deck, now in the Brera Museum. The Sola Busca tarot is the earliest completely extant example of a 78-card tarot deck.
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 1650s. Aside from these early outliers, the first generation of French-suited tarots depicted scenes of animals on the trumps and were thus called " Tiertarock " ( Tier being German for ...
André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French: [ɑ̃dʁe adɔlf(ə) øʒɛn(ə) dizdeʁi]; 28 March 1819 – 4 October 1889) was a French photographer who started his photographic career as a daguerreotypist but gained greater fame for patenting his version of the carte de visite, a small photographic image which was mounted on a card.
Partie de cartes (also known as Card Game and The Messers. Lumière at Cards (USA), or A Quiet Game of Écarté [ 1 ] ) is an 1895 French black-and-white , silent short film directed and produced by Louis Lumière and starring Antoine Féraud.
Jeu de cartes (also known in English as A Card Game, [1] Game of Cards, [2] or Card Party) [3] is a ballet in "three deals" by Igor Stravinsky based on a libretto he co-wrote with Nikita Malayev, a friend of his eldest son Théodore. [4]
Under the Cards (French: Le dessous des cartes) is a 1948 French crime film directed by André Cayatte and starring Madeleine Sologne, Serge Reggiani and Paul Meurisse. [1] The story is loosely based on the Stavisky Affair of the 1930s. A separate Italian-language version Manù il contrabbandiere was also produced.
Well before the Second World War, in 1922, the industrialists said they had thought of a system of measurement that would be indispensable to verify the work and output of the Press, and pushed the initiative hard at Martial Buisson, In 1948 the Office de justification des tirages ("Press Compliance Office") became the OJT, (French: Office de ...