Hello Yves... -Well and for this Saturday I will taste Smirnoff Vodka (English version) that surely ours anglo friends here know it. As a frenchman are you more close to Armagnac or to Wine ? /Here we ave one of the best Malbec. I m been thinking to return to smoke my olds good pipes fiiled with the...

Salut Monsiuer Yves Les Marseilles ! Nice to meet you also Steve ! After a hard work week now I can say "Friday,ThanksGod it s Friday ! " I lighted a Cohiba and now filingl a glass with a Wyborowa Vodka,and for that and for be here again I m simply tres joyeux mon good bon ami... My wife m...

I insist to attempt to place Chosson in place and time just by the images signals. Here we have Chosson LE MAT and Dodal LE FOL. LE MAT-DODAL.jpg LE MAT-CHOSSON.jpg see the shape of the head and the red stripe descending from his front head.As I not found anywhere even in Conver also. (Btw,On a Fren...

Hello JMD,nice night to meet you... 1-I want to specify strongly that here we have I think an awesome opportunity to inquire into a deck undated. 2-I m working on an sketch about deck structure,so sequence but not on a meaning sense,I mean strictly facts sustain card iconographic sequence. BTW If th...

Hello Bee... Here there are people more qualified than me for replay to you the link between Hebrews,Christian and Muslim. -What i really think and best,feel that there is finally a common source. The prove of that is the best minds of these three cultures meet them together with the Greeks at the s...

Nice to meet you again Lorredan and of course the others goods (Gods) Comrades here... You bring to us a deep topic and I think related to LE ROVE DE FORTVNE card. Here I attached the François Chosson vision of it,and his green X crossed rays.That s drives me to the earliest Christ symbol and also t...

Once I promised to JMD and he remember me I owe to him,an alchemical point of view of the Tarot de Marseilles,so I copy here which I sent to Steve on Aeclectic.... (So here you get it JMD ) Hello kwaw ... I think we must have in mind the iconographic differences of the decks. 1-Fire flames going out...

Hello JMD... First let me clear a point. You said : "Am I to understand, Eugim, that your main point is not so much arguing against the suggested dating, but rather the classification " Well this is precisely the center point / On one side I want or attempt to arguing about the dating. For...

Robert,I m agree with you that the earlier image depict a wedding but more on the italian decks I think. We both know that frenchmen reworked all the iconnography of many cards so we now call since then it the Tarot de Marseilles. Marseilles pattern is different and Cupid it s still there blindfolde...

Many thanks Robert I will try...

Eugim