Various party games popular during the Napoleonic Era. Kissing games including the Convent Porter, Bridge of Love, Sultan, Base of the Candlestick. Divers jeux de societe un usage sous le Premier Empire. Lithograph from Henry Rene d’Allemagne’s Recreations et Passe-Temps, Games and Pastimes, Hachette, Paris, 1906.

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