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Piquet, the Glossary

Index Piquet

Piquet is an early 16th-century plain-trick card game for two players that became France's national game.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 22 relations: Écarté, Bête, Card game, Card player, Charles I of England, Charles VI of France, Cribbage, David Parlett, Edmond Hoyle, François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Gin rummy, Glossary of card game terms, Henrietta Maria of France, Hundred Years' War, La Hire, Mary I of England, Philip II of Spain, Thirty Years' War, Trick-taking game, Whist, World War I.

  2. 16th-century card games
  3. English card games
  4. Plain-trick games

Écarté

Écarté is an old French casino game for two players that is still played today. Piquet and Écarté are French card games and two-player card games.

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Bête

Bête, la Bête (Jeu de la Bête), Beste or la Beste (Jeu de la Beste), originally known as Homme or l'Homme (Jeu de l'Homme), was an old, French, trick-taking card game, usually for three to five players. Piquet and Bête are French card games.

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Card game

A card game is any game that uses playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, whether the cards are of a traditional design or specifically created for the game (proprietary).

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Card player

Card players are those participating in a card game.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Charles VI of France

Charles VI (3 December 136821 October 1422), nicknamed the Beloved (le Bien-Aimé) and in the 19th century, the Mad (le Fol or le Fou), was King of France from 1380 until his death in 1422.

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Cribbage

Cribbage, or crib, is a card game, traditionally for two players, that involves playing and grouping cards in combinations which gain points. Piquet and Cribbage are English card games and two-player card games.

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David Parlett

David Parlett (born 18 May 1939 in London) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board games.

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Edmond Hoyle

Edmond Hoyle (167229 August 1769) was an English writer best known for his works on the rules and play of card games.

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François Rabelais

François Rabelais (born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author.

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Gargantua and Pantagruel

The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel), often shortened to Gargantua and Pantagruel or the Cinq Livres (Five Books), is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais.

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Gin rummy

Gin rummy, or simply gin, is a two-player card game variant of rummy. Piquet and gin rummy are two-player card games.

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Glossary of card game terms

The following is a glossary of terms used in card games.

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Henrietta Maria of France

Henrietta Maria of France (French: Henriette Marie; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until Charles was executed on 30 January 1649.

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Hundred Years' War

The Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) was a conflict between the kingdoms of England and France and a civil war in France during the Late Middle Ages.

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La Hire

Étienne de Vignolles, Sieur de Montmorillon, Chatelain de Longueville, also known as La Hire (1390 – 11 January 1443), was a French military commander during the Hundred Years' War.

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Mary I of England

Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain and the Habsburg dominions as the wife of King Philip II from January 1556 until her death in 1558.

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Philip II of Spain

Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent (Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.

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Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War, from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history.

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Trick-taking game

A trick-taking game is a card or tile-based game in which play of a hand centers on a series of finite rounds or units of play, called tricks, which are each evaluated to determine a winner or taker of that trick.

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Whist

Whist is a classic English trick-taking card game which was widely played in the 18th and 19th centuries. Piquet and Whist are English card games.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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See also

16th-century card games

English card games

Plain-trick games

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piquet

Also known as Sant (card game), Saunt (card game).