Jeu des Poètes. Composé de 80 Cartes avec Portraits
19101002917Neuchâtel: Delachaux & Niestlé 1910. Complete set of this literary "jeu des familles" in which players attempt to reunite "families" of notable French poets. The twenty poets featured are Corneille 1606-1684 La Fontaine 1621-1695 Molière 1622-1673 Racine 1639-1699 Béranger 1780-1857 Lamartine 1790-1869 Vigny 1797-1863 Victor Hugo 1802-1885 Juste Olivier 1807-1876 Alfred de Musset 1810-1857 Leconte de Lisle 1820-1894 Madame de Pressensé 1826-1901 Marc Monnier 1829-1885 Eugène Rambert 1830-1886 André Theuriet 1833-1908 Armand Sully-Prudhomme 1839-1908 François Coppée 1842-1908 Henry Warnery 1859-1902 Alice de Chambrier 1861-1882 and Philippe Godet the only poet still living at the time of this game's publication. A bright near-fine example housed in the original publisher's box. Complete set of eighty playing cards each measuring 4.5 x 2.75 inches. Each card printed in gold red and black featuring a portrait of a French poet birth and death dates and a quoted verse; versos uniformly patterned. Housed with original instruction card in publisher's stiff card box pale grey silk ribbon pulls pastedown pictorial label featuring Victor Hugo. Light rubbing to box. Delachaux & Niestlé unknown books
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