Yves, it looks stunning! Congratulations! You should be very proud, it seems to be of extremely high-quality and detail. Lovely. Hello Robert and Huck , Many thanks for encouraging me in this long run project who took a big part of my time during last..... years now. My quality AND defaults was use...

Hello everybody, I am slightly proud to announce you launching of my own website :ymparty: fully dedicated to Tarots of Marseilles and « said » of Marseilles : ENGLISH VERSION http://www.tarot-de-marseille-herita...ish/index.html FRENCH VERSION http://tarot-de-marseille-heritage.com/index.html Main ...

Thank you Yves - a great resource. (All the years I have spent looking at the Tarot de Marseille cards - I only just notice that one of the Fools little bells has fallen off onto the ground.) :fool Hello Steve and all, Me too I sometimes still discover some "details" my brain did not inte...

Hello, I find this on youtube : http://www.youtube.com/user/esoteriquesamsara#p/u/58/GGbCNVSJv4c Great job ! :clapping Hello all, On many historical decks Death is left oriented See this new deck coming soon: http://www.tarot-de-marseille-millennium.com/tarot_edition_millennium.html Made by a frien...

Hello all, Here is a message from the author of this book and deck I just received for communication. I think it could be useful. Note his website more specificly who is born at this occasion :ymparty: Best from Marseille Yves Le Marseillais THE SACRED CODE OF THE TAROT - The rediscovery of the orig...

Marseille sunday 10th april 2011 Announced since long time, here is a rather original book about Tarot of Marseille: "Le Code sacré du Tarot" In preview,you will find in it the 22 major arcanas. They will be printed as deck in a limited edition to be issued this automn. With a bilingual fr...

Hello all, Here is a civette picture: http://www.pneumopathie-atypique.net/images/civette.jpg Mammifère carnassier d'Afrique et de l'Inde, au corps allongé, au pelage gris parsemé de taches noires et dont la taille varie de celle du chat à celle du chien : Les civettes tiennent en quelque façon le m...

Hello all,

Two days ago I just received my exemplary I ordered 11 days ago.
I started reading it.
For one time an english written book is talking about Tarot of Marseille pattern deck: A not so frequent moment.

Salutations from France Marseille

Yves L M

Hello Robert,

No problem. That's me that used a wrong english term: I wrote with my french mind connection . A "demande" in french is not as strong as a demand in english.
I should have use "question" probably.
No ?

Best,

Yves

I believe it was Yves who did as much research as he could on the Mermés. If editors were no longer allowed to engrave their own molds after 1701, that would explain why the Payens would hire someone. It could be that there were few engravers (a very specialised skill-amazing!) around by that time,...