French-Suited Playing Cards: A Photographic Archive

A Gallery of Main National and Regional Playing Cards and Standard Tarot Decks

 
A Visual Archive of Standard Patterns
FRENCH-SUITED PLAYING CARDS | 1

LAST UPGRADE: 15.08.2026

Selected deck:
Portrait Officiel en pied
INV 2708 | "Portrait Officiel", French national pack

Main conventional patterns
single-headed
double-headed
pattern name
Languedoc-style playing cards, restored
Languedoc pattern[PRE-19TH CENTURY]

Restored version.
Languedoc pattern [1]
French-style playing cards, full-lenght figures
French-style playing cards
French national pattern

«Portrait officiel» & "export" versions.
French 1 [24] | French 2 [22]
International French-style playing cards
French international pattern

Also known as Belgian or Genoa pattern.
France, Belgium & other countries [34]
Italy (Genoese pattern) [14]
Piedmontese-style playing cards
Piedmont pattern

Cards of the French double-headed pattern, horizontally divided.
Piedmontese pattern & others [12]
Swiss Parisian-style playing cards
Swiss-Parisian pattern[ENDS ∼1900]

Swiss version of the French national pattern.
Swiss-Parisian pattern [1]
Geneva-style playing cars, full-lenght figures
Geneva-style playing cards
Geneva pattern[ENDS ∼1940]

Light variant of the Dauphiné pattern.
Geneva pattern [5]
Fribourg-style playing cards
Fribourg pattern[ENDS ∼1850]

Lyon export pattern.
Recalls the full-length Viennese pattern.
Fribourg pattern [1]
Neuchâtel-style playing cards, full-lengh figures
Neuchâtel-style playing cards
Neuchatel pattern[ENDS ∼1940]

Lyon export pattern.
Neuchâtel pattern [6]
Viennese-style playing cards (type A)Viennese-style playing cards (type E)Viennese-style playing cards (type D)
Vienna patterns

Lyon export pattern.
It gave rise to several Viennese patterns.
Viennese patterns [32]

  Type A
  Type E
  Type D
Lyon & Milan-style playing cards, full-lenght figures
Lyon & Milan-style playing cards, double headed
Lyon & (old) Milan patterns[ENDS ∼1925]

Directly derived versions, single and double headed.
Lyon & (old) Milanese patterns [3]
Belgian-style playing cardsBruxelles-style playing cards
Belgian patterns[ENDS ∼1920]

Belgian «cartes larges» & Brussels «cartes étroites» (narrow): both also «cartes marbrées» (marbled).
Belgian & Brussels patterns [6]

  Belgian pattern
  Brussels pattern
Liège-style playing cards
Liege pattern[ENDS ∼1900]

A Rouen export pattern.
Also known as «miners cards».
Liège pattern [3]
Rouen-style playing cards, restored
Rouen-style playing cards, hypothetical
Rouen pattern[PRE-19TH CENTURY]

The origin of the modern English pattern.
Here restored decks and modern derivations.
Rouen pattern [4]
English-style playing cards, full-lenght figures
English-style playing cards
English pattern[▶ EXTENDED PAGE]

This section is split into multiple parts.
Please refer to the extended page.
Mecklenburg-style playing cards
Mecklenburg pattern[ENDS ∼1900]

Mecklenburg pattern [2]
Berlin-style playing cards
Berlin pattern

German national pattern (in the french system).
Berlin 1 [37] | Berlin 2 [24]
Swiss-style playing cards (French system)
Swiss pattern

Swiss national pattern in the french system.
Swiss pattern [35]
Russian-style playing cards
Russian pattern

Russian national pattern.
Russian pattern [8]
'Trente-et-Quarante' playing cards
«Trente-et-Quarante» pattern

A specific pattern for use in (some) European casinos.
"Trente-et-Quarante" pattern [7]
Frankfurt-style playing cards (type I)Frankfurt-style playing cards (type II)Frankfurt-style playing cards (type III)Frankfurt-style playing cards (type IV)'Cartes Belges' playing cards
Frankfurt patterns[ENDS ∼1935]

Several Frankfurt patterns & similar «cartes belges».
Still produced in the «Adler-Cego» (tarot) format.
Frankfurt patterns & "Cartes Belges" [16]

  [Type I]
  [Type II]
  [Type III]
  [Type IV]
  "Cartes Belges"
Rhineland-style playing cards
Rhineland pattern

A Dondorf pattern that has spread internationally.
Rhineland (or Dondorf) pattern [32]
Dutch-style playing cards
Dutch pattern

Formerly also described as «Cartes Royales».
Dutch pattern [14]
Milanese-style playing cards
Milan pattern

With clear traces of its lineage in the Lyon pattern.
Rank names & indices mainly for Switzerland (Ticino).
Milanese pattern [23]
Tuscan-style playing cards
Tuscan pattern[ENDS ∼1960]

Formerly described as "small" Tuscan (or Florentine) pattern.
Tuscan pattern [3]
Florentine-style playing cards
Florence pattern

Formerly described as "large" Florentine (or Tuscan) pattern. Now small (or, better, "new" Tuscan pattern).
Florentine (& new Tuscan) pattern [15]
Swedish-style playing cards
Swedish pattern

Swedish national pattern.
Swedish pattern [21]
Scandinavian-style playing cards
Scandinavian pattern

Scandinavian pattern [5]
Greek-style playing cards
Greek pattern[ENDS ∼1980]

Greek national pattern, of French origins.
Greek pattern [3]
Portugese-style playing cards (French system)
Portuguese pattern

Dominant pattern in the french system.
A pattern of German origins.
Portuguese pattern [3]

Conventional tarot patterns
court cards
trump suit
pattern name
'Adler-Cego' Tarot: court cards
'Adler-Cego' Tarot: the trumps
«Adler-Cego» tarot pattern

The court cards come from a Frankfurt pattern.
Here, furthermore, other tarots with animals.
"Adler-Cego" and others [5]
'Industrie und Glück' Tarot: court cards
'Industrie und Glück' Tarot: the trumps (type III)'Industrie und Glück' Tarot: the trumps (type IV)'Industrie und Glück' Tarot: the trumps (type V)'Industrie und Glück' Tarot: the trumps (type VI)
«Industrie und Gluck» tarot pattern

"Industrie und Glück" tarot pattern [24]

Court cards Trumps type III (or A)
  Trumps type IV
  Trumps type V (or B)
  Trumps type VI (or C)
'Bourgeois' Tarot: court cards
'Bourgeois' Tarot: the trumps
«Bourgeois» tarot pattern

Also known as «nouveau» and «encyclopédique».
In Germany also «Cego».
"Bourgeois" tarot pattern [18]