Jean Luc Lanez has already done the research on the Maitre Cartier Claude Valentin, and published his family tree on geneanet here: https://gw.geneanet.org/lanezjl?n=valentin&oc=&p=claude+cartier And also the Rolichon family of cardmakers: https://gw.geneanet.org/lanezjl?n=rolichon&oc=&a...

The Dubesset is clearly made of up 2 or more decks. The engraving and orthography is clearly variant. On the 2 of Cups is a double-headed eagle with the initials C V: I think this must be none other than Claude Valentin, listed as the Jure of Maitre Cartiers in Lyon in 1668: https://forum.tarothisto...

Huck wrote: 25 Jan 2022, 09:04
There is something written in the middle height of the card at the left side (5 letters ?). Any ideas?

I see five characters - the initials C G with space fillers [:} - :C:G:

Pertinent to note maybe, given the religious troubles of the time between Catholics and Protestants being the cause of much of the emigration to Switzerland, that Guillaume & Dorothee were married in a Catholic church. I was assuming that Guillaume was nominally a Catholic anyway, given that th...

Dating of the Guillaume Dubesset The dating of the Guillaume Dubesset is speculative, based upon the little information available to us, and admittedly insecure assumptions, but not, I think, too much of a stretch? "Sieur Guillaume Dubesset, maître cartier de Thiers en Auvergne, demeurant à Ve...

"Acts of adoption of the Fédides children, both by the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyon and by the general alms" : quote "Testament (December 28, 1670) by which Étiennette Durrieu, widow of Antoine Fédides [sic]*, merchant and master cardmaker in Lyon, named as her universal heirs seven of their c...

Valet of Clubs by Jean Dodat [Dodal] de Lyon - portrait de Lyon:

Steve, what is your source for the 1638 date for Rolichon? The sources I have seen give 1635 as the latest known date for Nicolas Rolichon. Thanks for catching that, I made an error. We do not have an exact date of his death, we know he was alive in 1635, but he is deceased in the next notice we ha...

The Dodal is made for export, as it clearly states on several cards. Export to where , I wonder? The inventory [December 1670] of the workshop of Antoine Fédides merchant and master cardmaker Lyon gives us an idea of where the cardmakers of Lyon were exporting to at the latter part of the 17th cent...