Oldest French pack--The costumes--Charles VI--The
marriage fête--The fire--Original French Piquet pack--
Invention of French pips--Vignoles and Chevalier--Jacques
Coeur--The Palace at Bourges--Money or Carreaux--Swords
or piques--Sticks or Tréfles--The pun--Red and black--The
startling inquiry--Tarots, Playing Cards or the Book of
Thoth--Ignorance of writers--French cards born three
hundred years ago--Vignolles--Chevalier and Jacques
Coeur--Piquet--Agnes Sorel--Black and red--de Gebelin's
history--Confusion--Discussion--Prejudice.