Bonjour Céline, Since procuring material from outside the UK would likely be quite expensive now, you might want to try your luck with some of the material online, or stick to ebooks for the moment. As it happens, there is the very nice catalogue by Thierry Depaulis, "Tarot, Jeu et Magie",...

Definitely a bizarrely beautiful text. http://archives.skafka.net/alice69/doc/aa_lesnouvreveldeletre.htm I'd like to see the manuscript. I don't think it is extant, but the Harvard copy is here: http://blogs.harvard.edu/houghtonmodern/2016/12/06/cautionary-tales/ As I recall, that had belonged to o...

I’ve now been able to read most of the documents involved, and Artaud’s booklet and its tarotic background are certainly a lot more interesting than Shafer and co. would have us believe. Its intimate structural connection to the Tarot is also noteworthy; something only picked up on by the German aut...

Here’s an article on Aluette by René-Louis Doyon, which some may find interesting.

Speaking of folded-up sheets in boxes, one of Marteau's decks in the BNF had a little surprise in it, another article by the good doctor Baudouin: From this deck here: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10536067n

It certainly looks more fun than bridge, whist, or tarot !

Yeah, the "papies" are probably the main demographic who still play; the latest set of Grimaud aluette cards (the only ones available, in fact) have the instructions for the grimaces written on the cards. http://www.archives.vendee.fr/var/storage/images/media/images/actualite-clefs-pour-la...

Hi Ross, Relative of Tarot in the loose and figurative sense, being a card game, and it is mentioned in the same breath in Rabelais’ Pantagruel , right before “taraux”. Yes, the way the files display on that site is inconvenient, I’ve compiled the articles into PDFs here: https://www.scribd.com/docu...

Another historical article on Aluette is also online, André Viaud-Grand- Marais, "Un vieux jeu de cartes vendéen : le jeu d'aluette". Revue du Bas-Poitou, 1910, 2° fascicule, pp. 186-200. The article can be found in the second volume for 1910. http://recherche-archives.vendee.fr/archives/f...

Researching a couple of points in Court de Gébelin’s essay which mentioned Aluette, I looked into the literature on the subject, and it may interest some readers to know that the classic studies on this neglected relative of the Tarot are now available online; the two early (and quite lengthy) artic...