tarot nouveau court cards english indices
the tarot nouveau deck, (but not all) tarot decks, composed of 78 cards. 56 suited in traditional french suits, 14 cards per suit; ten pip cards values 1 10 (the ace bears number 1 instead of familiar , , ranks low), , 4 court cards: jack (valet), knight (chevalier or cavalier), queen (dame) , king (roi). other 22 21 atouts or trumps , 1 fool. deck different 52-card poker deck in existence of separate trump suit , , addition of knight court card. these cards removed deck identical 52-card deck playing purposes. face cards not use parisian pattern (portrait officiel) have own unique illustrations. fool, though similar in appearance , function joker card of poker decks, has differing origins (see joker more information).
trumps
the 21 trumps in tarot nouveau deck each have 2 scenes taking graphic portion of card, in reversible fashion (one scene face-up), unlike court cards have similar reversible art, of cards scenes not rotationally symmetrical. each card has 1 scene show urban representation of particular trait or idea (listed below), while other side depicts more rural interpretation. these themes, instead of more historic depictions ( major arcana ), chosen represent tarot trumps in unicode 7.0. scenes depicted follows:
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