Tarot de Marseille Jean Dodal

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I was first introduced to the Tarot in 1982, when I was, of all things, a Mormon missionary in Béziers, France. A recent French convert to Mormonism showed me some tarot cards and explained their ancient symbolism to me. I was intrigued. The cards were – I learned later – from the Paul Marteau rendition of the Tarot of Marseille, published by Grimaud. Ten years later, I found a copy of that same Grimaud Tarot of Marseille in a New Age book store in Minneapolis and bought it, the first Tarot deck I'd ever owned. Over the years since then, I've nurtured a fascination with Tarot by collecting dozens of other decks, historical, esoteric and fanciful, many of great beauty. But never have I found a deck I really enjoyed studying or using more than that “classic” Tarot of Marseille by Grimaud – until now. The Jean-Claude Flornoy restoration of the Jean Dodal Tarot of Marseille published in 2009 should be of great interest to Tarot enthusiasts, if only because of the Dodal deck's historic importance. There are a handful of complete or nearly complete decks available to scholars of the Tarot that were produced prior to the mid-eighteenth century: the Visconti decks of the fifteenth century,

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