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The Noblet and the Dodal they are my loving my favorites TDM all time especially those from JC Flornoy. Many thanks.🙏👍

Wonderful video! I subscribed. I also love the Krebs deck. Your observation about the relatively cruder images being less distracting is true for me as well. While the Ignaz Krebs engraver may not possess the mastery evident in the Noblet or Conver, he is nevertheless very skilled. Many of the Krebs characters are unforgettable. The cross-eyed Pope is the friendliest I've ever seen. The Hermit looks fabulous and very warm in his fur robe. Death looks like a pirate with that broken smile. The Besançon-style Moon card is one of my favorites. I agree that the cardstock is the best of any deck I've ever handled, and I also quite like the bright, vibrant red contrasting with the generally subdued colors. I wish Piatnik would produce more facsimile tarot decks like this. Finally, the pips are very clear and pleasing to look at, especially the cups and coins. The 7 of Coins has a unique arrangement that I've never seen in any other deck.

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Again sooo sorry and « add « instead of « has » crrrrrr😭

Hello just discovered your Chanel and excellent vidéo and Shane. Many thanks 🙏❤👍👌

Thank you. Interesting.

What an excellent video and a fantastic choice of decks for the topic. I have them all except the Sheridan Douglas , which has been on my wish list for a while. I'm glad the algorithm led me to your channel, David. I've subscribed and am eager to enjoy more of your content. It seems as though we very much see things very similarly. Thank you

I love the Krebs deck! It is my latest addition to my decks, and quickly became my favourite to read with. If a tuck box is too tight, I just put the extra (title) card out and in my "extra cards envelope". This one card less usually is enough to give the space in the box so I can put the deck in without problems. And I totally agree, it is so much easier to focus with the imperfect/ "clumsier art" decks, and I get very distracted with decks that are too beautiful. Which is why most of my decks aren't very beautiful from an artistical viewpoint.

Hi David! I had that issue before with my lovely "ugly" decks. I trully thought it was only me😅. They can be quite charming, can't they?! My favorite decks are actually "atipical" ones. I have divided them into "functions". They seem to have a spirit/voice of their own (I sound crazy... maybe I am?!). My "i have the house on fire, what deck will i take with me deck?" is the Casanova Tarot (by Lo Scarabeo). It's visually "spicy" (which I dislike), not a very stunningly artistic one at first sight, and it's a private one for sure. I can't read with it in public. Nor I can read it to anyone!! Never. But... It reads like a dream for me, specially regarding serious topics (professional/health/decision making/how to plan ahead questions)!!! I call it my counsellor deck. I trully love it. It's charming!! It has humour! It's lighthearted and fun. But it's also honest. Trully honest. It has helped me a lot! I always get very good insights, intuitive readings with it! That said, I adore Lo scarabeo , my favorite decks are from them. One of my precious, you've also shown on your collection. And i also have terrific readings with it: Ancient italian. But that's a pretty one for sure ;) Oh... we have similar tastes in some decks :) I also like Thoth. A very ignored by our tarot community, i think. It's a "pleasing to the eye" kind of deck. I enjoy the artwork. In 10:34 you have a very stern justice right there😁!! The facial expression is fantastic! It's a very relatable deck, i think. And i really love the spanish tarot. I think the colours work in the reading table! Great choices!! Kind regards!

I'm so glad I found your review. That book has been on my list for a while, now I have to decide if I want it in Italian or English, both are not my native languages, but it might be a great opportunity to brush up my Italian, and at the same time avoid to learn the occasional misspelled English.

Yeah, the delamination of the box adds another level of character. Ooo, I love new layouts(spreads)!

Hello David, another great video. It's great to see you at the beginning, it puts a face to a voice ! I didn't know at all this way of doing the 3-card draw, by drawing a card until you have a Triumph card, it's very interesting ! I also like how you sensitize between the graphic interpretation and the symbolic interpretation. And it's true that the Ancient Italian Tarot offers a refreshingly new visual interpretation !

You deserve more views. You content is brilliant!

I'm learning now to read with the Tarocchi di Marsiglia. I've been reading cartomancy style and also with Thoth and R-W for more then 20 years. It's been fun. But I always struggled with the numerological association of R-W Smith, I like Thoth more. The beautiful thing about tarot is that we are constantly learning. Marsiglia is like having a free card to simply think outside the box! This was a terrific video! Very informative!!

Due to your video I bought the Spanish Tarot

Thank you, David, for this quite challenging exercise of discussing a tarot deck that one is discovering. I was very sensitive to some aspects of your feedback because it seems that you have a more developed artistic culture than mine, and I found it very interesting that you talked about Picasso, about cubism through the images, because I had never considered that aspect before. You spend quite some time with the Judgement card in your hands; have you noticed that the angel is cross-eyed? Similarly, the lion in the World card is also cross-eyed. Going back to the Judgement card, there are 4 angels in the Tarot de Marseille, including two celestial ones: the angel in the L'AMOUREUX card and the angel in the Judgement card. You'll notice that the eyes of the angel in L'AMOUREUX are covered with a blindfold, meaning he is blind and, therefore, does not control his desires or ambition; in short, he does not have a clear vision. On the contrary, the angel in Judgement is cross-eyed to show his ability to focus and direct his gaze towards a specific direction. He has true vision. I'm also not sure if you’ve noticed, regarding LE PENDU, that it is actually the representation of an embryo. Here, the trunks and the beam represent the uterine walls, and the rope represents the umbilical cord. Regarding the spelling of LE BATELEUR and TEMPÉRANCE, it seems to me that the spelling mistakes are intentional. The "L" in fact represents the builder's square, indicating that Jean Noblet was initiated by a master and that he himself is now a master. About the puddle of water at the woman's feet in LE SOLEIL card, I have the following understanding: to me, it is the crayfish from LA LUNE card that is now emerging from the water in the form of a woman, purified of its animal or alienated state. Psychologically speaking, this describes the integration of the shadow and the anima. As for the "h" in L'HERMITE, I don't believe it's a spelling error due to the lack of standardized French spelling at the time, although this is true since the Académie française was founded around 1650. The "h" appears, I believe, with the Madonnier Tarot in 1709. By then, French was indeed standardized, and for me, the "h" is an esoteric addition to evoke the god Hermes or Hermetic theories. On the card L'ETOILE, the woman’s back is indeed very particular. For me, it's the representation of a woman's torso and a man's back. It represents the integration of one’s masculine and feminine aspects, which directly appears in LE SOLEIL card. It’s also worth noting that the young woman with the jug placed near her lower abdomen indicates that she is losing her waters. Concerning the debate over whether the animal depicted in LA FORCE is a bear or a lion, I understand well that the illustrators of the time may have never seen a lion, so it's natural that most depictions of felines might have been clumsy. However, I do notice that in LE MONDE card, Jean Noblet did indeed give his lion pointed ears, showing that he was aware of this feline characteristic. So when he gives the animal in LA FORCE round ears, he is telling us that it is not a feline, supporting the bear theory. Naturally, there is the possibility that some cards were not engraved by Jean Noblet himself but by his apprentices or "compagnons". Personally, I wouldn't have accepted letting a "compagnon" or apprentice engrave one of the major trumps. I might have let them engrave the court cards or Pip cards, but not the major trumps. On the other hand, it’s true that the wooden molds had to be periodically replaced, possibly yearly, due to tax regulations. So perhaps out of weariness, the master craftsman allowed the "compagnon" or apprentices to engrave the major trumps. What you said about LE PAPE is very interesting. Indeed, the papal crosier is of a very ancient style. I believe Jean Noblet wanted to show here that his knowledge was not just contemporary, but that part of his wisdom came from much older sources, namely Antiquity. We all know that the Renaissance allowed the rediscovery of much knowledge from Antiquity, which had been lost during the Middle Ages. You rightly pointed out that some hands are much larger than others, and that it was likely intentional. For my part, I feel that Jean Noblet drew these hands as those of a master. By making the hands larger than normal, he wanted to convey that the character was mastering the object he was holding, thus mastering the action permitted by the object in his hand. Regarding the court cards, the Reine de Coupes has a huge plant sheaf behind her, which falls down in front of her. What we see is not a window but the end of a leaf or flower, which comes down to place in her hands a full cup. The full cup represents a cup containing a seed. The Valet de Deniers, who is the only card holding two representations of the suit, here Deniers, shows that he has just received a Denier, in fact a seed, and we are at the sowing stage, depicted in the ground. It seems to me that the vegetative cycle, starting with the seed and going all the way to the flower dispersing the seeds, is a very important aspect of the court cards. Naturally, all of this is just my personal interpretation of Jean Noblet's Tarot. I find it remarkable that you suggested looking at the court cards through the four categories: Valet, Roi, reine, Chevalier. It may seem obvious, but after watching your video, I realized how, when studying the tarot cards, I always put the four cards of the same suit in front of me, and I never studied the four Valets, four Rois, four Reines, and four Chevaliers at the same time. Now I see how much I’ve missed! I have a question. You often talk about the fine details of the characters' facial features, which is very true. Sometimes, I see faces that seem quite androgynous in Jean Noblet's Tarot, particularly the knights. I find that the Chevalier de Denier and the Chevalier d'épées have rather androgynous faces. What do you think?

Hello David, thank you for quoting me in your video. It's really very kind, because I don't consider myself a specialist in the Tarot of Marseille. I'm not a historian. About the type 1 and type 2 tarots, it was precisely the historian Thierry Depaulis who defined the classification type 1 and type 2. It would therefore be up to him to define whether the Jean Noblet tarot is type 1 or type 0. Personally I don't know if he did it, I don't have any information. What I can say is that the Jean Noblet tarot respects the criteria of type 1. However there is a fundamental difference, we always come back to the famous card of the XIX - LE SOLEIL with a man and a woman instead of 2 children. It is the only historical Tarot of Marseille that has this specificity. So it is perhaps up to each person to know if, because of the card LE SOLEIL, this tarot is type 1 or type 0, that is to say a prototype. Concerning the secret of the Tarot of Marseille. At the same time there is one, and there is not. The card LE MONDE tells us in essence that the ultimate achievement is not communion with God, or access to a form of paradise, but rather that the purpose of the spiritual journey is to be at the center of oneself. We can imagine how very subversive this was for the time. The French cardmaker masters had the great intelligence to use Judeo-Christian references so that their card games would not be banned by the Church. But even today, considering that the goal of a spiritual path is to find oneself at the center of oneself is something that is not yet obvious, even if modern psychology and personal development tends towards that. This may be one of the reasons why enthusiasts are hypnotized by tarot, because they perceive the novelty and relevance of this spirituality (without understanding it), but at the same time the deep truth still escapes them. I haven't finished watching your video, I'll continue tomorrow. More comments to follow!

Thank you for your video, David. I ordered the book, a new edition, Tarot of Marseille: A Guide to Interpretation Anna Maria Morsucci , Antonella Aloi , Mattio Ottolini.

Thank you David for this new video, once again very interesting. Each time you convince me to buy a new tarot and here a new book, despite it being in English ^_^ . I really liked the part on the symbolism of numbers and the aspects covered by the book on this subject

Thank you for sharing the book! Had it not been for your video, I wouldn’t have looked twice at it, most likely. Same with the deck! It’s not in my collection … yet, we’ll see 😂

Many thanks for sharing 👍

Do you like the Yoav Ben Dov book?

Nice unboxing! The Madenié is an obvious favorite of mine; the faces, the colors, and the faint ghosting is fun. I also love the Paul Marteau! I really dig the blue hair and the minimal color palette.

This was my first Marseille-style deck, & has become my very favorite. It has a quirky but cheerful character which has brought a lot of fun to my Tarot journey.

Hello David. Thank you for this review. You are right about Conver we see the date of 1760 on the two of deniers, even if we know that Conver was active at the beginning of the 19th century, which clearly proves that he had bought the molds. It seems to me that the backs of the cards have been restored, right? I had completely forgotten the green of the sun and on the clothes from the court cards of cups. In fact, I had the copy of Madenié supplied with the "Tarot Pas à Pas" book by Marianne Costa, I did very little reading with the Madenié. And I gave the book and the copy of Madenié to my niece! ^_^ But I remain convinced that it is the most beautiful Type II! I should buy another one, perhaps that of Yves Reynaud, because looking at your review, I realize that I myself have not done a review of this unique tarot. Question: why are there 2 "LE MAT" in the deck? Best regards. David

That is a very lovely deck. Full of character, the faces are lovely - but I love the block print detail. Thank you for sharing!

video was great. sound and lighting very good

Oh, I've got to get these 👏

It's funny, but sometimes I like a border, and sometimes I don't. It just depends on the images 👌

Thanks for the review. I had confused it with another Fournier I have. This one I didn't know. Indeed it's a shame for the errors in the text and especially for the information from the printer on the 5 of swords. I've never seen a Celtic cross as complicated as that in the layout, even if 11 cards seems the normal number. I'm not sure the printer used the original names, they're the RWS tarot names, aren't they? Too bad for a Spanish tarot from 1736 when the RWS tarot did not yet exist. I really like the colours, except for the orange of the cups. The line of the drawings is rather nice, and I have the impression that this is a deck that could be suitable for children. Although the 22 triumphs lack a certain amount of detail, but I think it's a good challenger to the tarot de marseille. I'll have to buy this one too, thanks for the discovery!

Thank you for your complete présentation. J'adore ! Merci de m'avoir fait découvrir le Ancian Italian Tarot, je vais l'acheter.

Seems to be very interesting, I have to get this book !

Watching through I need to apologise for referring to the manufacturer incorrectly as La Scarabeo when it should be Lo Scarabeo. Also, the playing card pack I used is a little atypical and much wider than average, so the mini deck isn't so different in size, but perhaps a tad too small ideally.

That book is absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for sharing. Such lovely descriptions, David. I want to add to my library...imagine. 🤣