Mysterious guessing of Madame Recamieu - a tribute to fashion or a prediction of fate?

Madame Rekamier is one of those famous beauties, admiration and admiration for which laid in the word "Parisian" so much charm, mystery and charm. Mind, refinement and refinement brought her European fame. Poets (Chateaubriand) and artists (Gerard and David) sang and immortalized its beauty.

"Madame Recamie" - this phrase became a household word. Her name was furniture, styles of hairstyles and dresses. She was a trendsetter in everything. In her salon, where the destinies of Europe were being decided, the elite of the society spent time not only in high society talks, but also spent time at card tables.

Solitaire refers to intelligent card games. He requires concentration and, thus, distracts from daily affairs and calms. Solitaire, which lay out the beautiful Julie, was more guessing on the cards, something akin to Tarot cards.

Madame Recamie's fortune telling did not require the drawing of the most correct moves, only it was necessary to know the correct interpretation of the dropped pictures. But later all the manipulations with the cards, where the deck was unfolding, began to be referred to solitaire games, as well as the "solitaire of Madame Recamie".

To successfully master any solitaire patience is needed. In French, "solitaire" has "patience", and Madame Recamie also demands it. The highlight of this board game is that it does not fit the traditional deck of cards, it needs a special one, consisting of 25 unique cards.

Shirt cards can be different. Each set is distinctive. A lot of talented artists were engaged in creating cards for solitaire "Fortune telling Madame Recamie". No matter how the maps were designed, they must be accompanied by an instruction explaining the meaning of the dropped pictures. If you need smartness to solve any solitaire, whether it's "Klondike" or "Four Kings", then for imagination "Fortune-telling Madame Recamie", where fatalism takes place (as it happened, so is fate), you need fantasy and life experience.

As already mentioned, the cards are 25 pieces, they are arranged in 5 rows, 5 cards each.

The chip itself has the form of a square and is divided by diagonals into 4 parts, each of which, in turn, represents a half of the image, which, if coinciding with another, next card, you need to decode and interpret the meaning contained in it.

Divination "Solitaire of Madame Recamie" is considered to converge in the case when all 50 pictures coincide, which is extremely rare. Gadalschiku remains content with fragmentary clues, based on 2-3 dropped pictures.

For fortune-telling, regular solitaire games, even very difficult and interesting in themselves, are suitable, simply their result is equated with the answers: "yes" - "no", "will come true" - "will not come true," that is, to unambiguous conclusions. Solitaire "Fortune telling Madame Recamie" can be presented in a variety of forms with the appropriate talent.

With a very large number of beautifully designed maps, among which there are original masterpieces, the interpretation of pictures somehow holds within certain limits, for example, "heart" is always love, and "tangle" is always expensive, "horseshoe" always means happiness.

Solitaire "Fortune-telling Madame Recamie" 2 variant differs from the first number of cards - there are only 20 of them, and they are laid out similarly to the first, but one row less. Pictures for interpretation, therefore, will be only 40. To achieve a more complete picture, the maps are decomposed several times.