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An Unfamiliar and Beautiful Belgian Tarot

Monday, March 17th, 2008

My online excursion through the Bibliothèque nationale de France not only turned up some interesting woodblocks, I also stumbled across this set of cards which appear to be related to the Belgian Tarot:

The BnF had this description (in French)
cote cliché: RC-C-01562
légende: Cartes à jouer : coupes, points et figures
département: Estampes et photographie
cote du document: […]