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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1340833
Summary
Eight 19th Century French Aluette cards. Aluette or Vache ("Cow") is an old, trick-taking card game that is played on the west coast of France. It is played by two teams, usually of four people, but sometimes also of six. It is unusual in using a unique pack of 48 Spanish playing cards and a system of signalling between playing partners. The French colloquial names for the game, jeu de la Vache or Vache, refer to the cow depicted on one of the cards. Similar design to Marseille tarot cards.