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The national pattern is still so popular in France that some fancy editions too have been made keeping in mind traditional decks. The sample on the right shows a non-standard single-ended version which artist Claude Weisbuch created for Grimaud-France Cartes: the indices for the first pip card of each suit, "1", have been turned into a more international "A", and the suit signs have been redrawn, but the twelve courts have maintained their historical names. The trèfle (club) was probably copied from the acorn and the pique (spade) fr... more