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Le Piquet National,

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Le Piquet National,
a rare printed fan, the leaf a hand-coloured etching of La Nation, Le Prince de Conde, Le Comte D'Artois and Mirabeau-Tonneau at a table playing Piquet, with an enseign La Nation, La Loi, Le Roi, below a phrygian cap, with eight stanzas of a song of their conversation about the constitution and diplomacy whilst they play the game, to the Air: Le Piquet m'est agreeable, with wooden sticks - 11in. (28cm.), 1788

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Andre-Boniface-Louis, Vicomte de Mirabeau (1754-1792) called Mirabeau-Tonneau - or the wine barrell - was the brother of the great orator, the son of the economist and one of the leading Royalists in the Assemblee.