54-Cards Fortune Telling Deck: Grand Lenormand

Case : 718

It wasn’t until two years after her death that a deck of cards called “Le Grand Jeu de Mlle. Lenormand” was first published by Grimaud, in France. This 54 card deck was claimed actually to be created by a Madame Breteau, a student of Madame Lenormand. The original deck was published under a pseudonym "Mme la comtesse de ***" and the publisher had no name but only an address: 46 rue Vivienne. The deck had 54 cards including a female and a male card presenting the consultant. The content of the 5 books included themes of astrology, chiromancy and other forms of divination. The deck was produced with designs taken from Greek mythology, star constellations, geomantic symbols, Hebrew letters (Kabbala), talismans, playing cards and oracle flowers. Another variations of these cards, called Wahrsagekarten der berühmten Mlle Le Normand, were produced ca. 1850 in Germany by the publisher J.F. Aug. Reiff.