Mlle. Lenormand Fortune Telling Cards

Mlle. Lenormand read for Napoleon, the legend says, and the review passes the legend along with appropriate hedging: U.S. Games's Mlle. Lenormand Fortune Telling Cards are supposedly a reproduction of the cards she used, Napoleonic-era artwork carrying the thirty-six symbols her name baptized. The scholarship behind the supposedly is worth one sentence: the historical Lenormand's actual cards are uncertain, and the system bearing her name was largely posthumous branding, divination's most successful celebrity endorsement. None of which diminishes the deck's standing: this reproduction has been the Anglophone world's reference Lenormand for decades, the edition through which the system's American revival first breathed. Alongside the Blue Bird's budget service, it is the tradition's availability history in card form. It suits Lenormand students who want the canonical reproduction, history-minded readers who appreciate the hedge, US Games completists, and collectors of divination's great legends. Napoleon's opinion, regrettably, went unrecorded; the cards have outlasted the empire regardless.