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245 00 Jeu de cavagnole. |h[game]
260    [Paris : |bAufrère, marchand tabletier rue Planche Mibrais, |cbetween 1770 and 1780]
300    14 engraved cards backed with green patterned paper gilt: chiefly hand col. ill. and 1 bag with beads.
500    This game is a forerunner of lotto, a game similar to bingo, that was introduced in France in the early eighteenth century. Madame du Chatelet, Voltaire's mistress, was a devotee of the game. Each player has an illustrated card with a series of numbers. The bag contains hollow beads that are drawn out one at a time. Small slips of paper with numbers written on them were tucked inside the beads, and when the bead is drawn, the number is read out and players see if the number matches any located on their card.
500    Title from description in Pierre Bergé auction catalogue Paris December 19 2012, lot 55.
500    Manufacturer's name from card with numbers 26-30.
500    Each card has five illustrations, numbered in sequence, from 1-70. The charming illustrations depict scenes from everyday life, including street criers, street performers, craftsmen, agricultural workers, etc. There are illustrations of a schoolroom, a child looking in a peepshow, and a group playing cavagnole.
500    From the collection of Jean-Paul Morin.
563    Contemporary wooden box 15 x 21 x 18 cm.
856 42  |3Commentary |uhttps://blogs.princeton.edu/cotsen/2013/09/a-closer-look-at-cotsens-collection/
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