Oldest French pack--The costumes--Charles VI--The marriage fête--The fire--Original French Piquet pack-- Invention of French pips--Vignoles and Chevalier--Jacques Coeur--The Palace at Bourges--Money or Carreaux--Swords or piques--Sticks or Tréfles--The pun--Red and black--The startling inquiry--Tarots, Playing Cards or the Book of Thoth--Ignorance of writers--French cards born three hundred years ago--Vignolles--Chevalier and Jacques Coeur--Piquet--Agnes Sorel--Black and red--de Gebelin's history--Confusion--Discussion--Prejudice. CHAPTER X--COURT CARDS WITH FRENCH PIPS 222-244 Paio--Stock--Widow--Bunch--Pips--Court cards--Their historic derivation--The number of pip and court cards-- The Joker--His origin in America--Cunning Mercury-- Fantastic designs--Conservative court dresses-- Double-headed and index cards--Costume of the Kings-- Their attributes and headgear--Charles of France--Old Tarots in Paris--French cards--The names on the French cards--La Hire--The dress of the knaves--Their attributes--Patch the court fool--Nicknames--The Bowers-- Skat--Le Valet--Le Fante--Il Soto--Der Ober--Der Unter-- The Queens--Elizabeth of York--Her husband's picture--The history of Elizabeth our Queen of Cards--Her birth, education, betrothal and costume--The jilting Dauphin-- Louis XI--Marriage--The poem--The credulous queen--The elegy of Sir Thomas More--Elizabeth's effigy in Westminster Abbey--Card backs--Messages and invitations. CHAPTER XI--POINT CARDS WITH FRENCH PIPS 245-252 The Pique--Its names--Dr. Stukley's cards--A Picke-- Clubs, the emblem of Agnes Sorel--Hearts--The Ace--The Earl of Cork--Le Borgne--Spanish nicknames--The Deuce-- The curse of Scotland--Duke of Cumberland--Chinese card and counter boxes--Pope Joan--Trey--Nicknames for the four and five spots--"Grace's card"--Lady Dorothy Nevill-- The origin of visiting cards--The backs--Derivation of the name of Tarot--The reverse designs--Dolls and their furniture from cards--Thackeray's invitation--Sir Jeffry Amhurst's bid to a ball--Luck at Piquet. CHAPTER XII--"ACCORDING TO HOYLE" 253-276