Fashionable people playing the memory game of the Gentle Knight. Players who make errors reciting a long sentence have to wear paper horns in their hair. Les Chevaliers Gentiles (Jeu de societe). From Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, 1817. Handcoloured lithograph after Gatine from Henry Rene d’Allemagne’s Recreations et Passe-Temps, Games and Pastimes, Hachette, Paris, 1906.

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