La Bouillotte (title on object), Cinq tableaux de costumes Parisiens (series title), An elegant group plays the card game Bouillotte at a table. (the game was invented under the Directoire and was the card game par excellence during this period, not so much in the gambling houses as in the fashionable salons. It was played with 5 players, referring to the five-member government of France that ruled the country during part the French Revolution (1795-1799) reigned, "Au temps des merveilleuses", no. 123)), print maker: anonymous, after drawing by: Jean François Bosio, Paris, 1804, paper

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