Bezique seems to be an ancestor of pinochle.
Jonathan Hayes
From: Robert Courts <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] App - Winston Churchill's own 'fiendishly hard'
version of solitaire
Dear Antoine,
It’s beyond me, too, I’m afraid.
I haven’t heard the solitaire link before, either - but like you I had heard
bezique a lot.
Robert
> On 26 Jan 2016, at 19:49, 'Antoine Capet' via ChurchillChat
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Dear Robert,
>
> Many thanks for this - I followed the link and I must confess I did not
> understand anything about that game, and why WSC's version was different.
>
> In his biographies, "bezique" is everywhere and "solitaire" almost nowhere.
> Both sound French, but they are not played in contemporary France, and I have
> no clue about their nature : is there a connection between the two ?
>
> No doubt some List Members must be latter-day adepts of these card games and
> can make all this understandable to all of us.
>
> With all best wishes,
>
> Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
> Head of British Studies
> University of Rouen
> 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
> France
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> -----Message d'origine----- From: Robert Courts
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 10:34 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [ChurchillChat] App - Winston Churchill's own 'fiendishly hard'
> version of solitaire
>
> Here’s an interesting item from the morning papers, and with an app to play,
> too -
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/12119786/Donald-Rumsfeld-launches-solitaire-app-inspired-by-Winston-Churchill.html?WT.mc_id=e_DM83570&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_Pol_New_NEW_TEMPLATE_2016_01_26&utm_campaign=DM83570
>
> Robert
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