Party goers playing the parlour game of The King of Morocco is Dead. Two gentlemen with candles advance gravely toward each other reciting the lines: Le roi de Maroc est mort, d'un coup de coutelas, il est mort. Jeu de Societe. Handcoloured lithograph from Henry Rene d’Allemagne’s Recreations et Passe-Temps, Games and Pastimes, Hachette, Paris, 1906.

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