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Nouveau (Le) Jeu des Modes Françoises - The New Game of French Fashion 
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primo autore: Desrais Claude-Louis (?)  
secondo autore: Sayer Robert 
anno: 1780 
luogo: Inghilterra-Londra 
periodo: XVIII secolo (4°/4) 
percorso: Percorso di 63 caselle numerate 
materiale: carta (paper) (papier) 
dimensioni: 533X772 (507X746-497X739) 
stampa: Acquaforte (taille-douce) (ecthing)  
luogo acquisto:  
data acquisto:  
dimensioni confezione:  
numero caselle: 63 
categoria: Moda e costumi 
tipo di gioco: Gioco di percorso  
editore: Sayer Robert (Crepy?) 
stampatore: London Printed for Rob.t Sayer N°53 Fleet Street&John Smith N°35, Cheapside 
proprietario: Collezione Rothschild 
autore delle foto: Waddesdon The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust) 
numero di catalogo: 1201 
descrizione: Gioco di 63 caselle numerate, spirale, antiorario, centripeto.
REGOLE: al centro.
CASELLE: con didascalia.

REFERENZA 1
(D'Allemagne, pag. 226): "Le Nouveau Jeu des Modes Françaises, Londres, Rob. Sayer (v. 1780). Taille-douce. 49,5x74. Vignettes représentant surtout des coiffures à la mode. Dans les coins: académie de coiffures, boutiques de modes et Champs-Elysées. Voir notice et pl. 43 et aussi p. 250".

REFERENZA 2
This 63-space game is of particular interest in that, although the plate is clearly French, it bears the imprint of the London map and print makers, Robert Sayer and John Smith. French text in the central space sets out the claim that of all the games so far invented for the recreation of reasonable persons or to amuse and instruct young people, none has had as its object the appreciation, at a single glance, of the elegance and variety of new fashion, created over the past three years. Most spaces carry an image of a woman in fashionable dress and hairstyle. There is a single series of goose-type spaces, on 9, 18 etc, and the instruction to move on by the extent of the throw is justified by saying that ‘it would be a pity to hide any of these ladies’ (by allowing a playing token to rest on them). The hazard spaces are peculiar to the game: the cook on space 5 leads to the governess on space 14; at 22, one spends time (miss 2 turns) with the young mistress and the flowers in the garden. Social mores are exemplified by the fact that one discusses fashion with the elegant lady at space 33, until another comes to give release; while on encountering the bourgeois lady at space 41, one does not know how to introduce oneself and must go back to space 30, the dress shop. At space 50, where there is the chic lady, one must speak to her about nothing until released by another - but there is no charge!
Finally, at space 59, there is the beautiful leg as revealed by a fashionably-dressed ‘nymph’ adjusting her stocking – pay 4 jettons for the pleasure and start the game again: quite why this deserves the ‘death’ rule is not made clear!
(Plock, Phillippa - Seville Adrian)

REFERENZA 3
"The New Game of French Fashion (Le Nouveau Jeu des Modes Francoises)", c. 1780; published by Robert Sayer (b.c 1724, d.1794) & John Smith (b.c 1751, d.1812), London. Etching, stipple engraving and engraving on paper, hand-coloured in watercolour and bodycolour. Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (Rothschild Family Trust).
This game about French fashions and hairstyles was printed in London. France had been the international leader of fashion since the reign of Louis XIV. In 1661 the English writer John Evelyn remarked that 'La Mode de France [French fashion] is one of the best returns they make, and feeds as many bellies as it clothes backs'. This game illustrates the latest French fashions and satirizes an abundance of trends and manners. Some of the squares seem quite brazen, for example space 59 depicting "the Beautiful Leg". Whoever lands on it must pay 4 tokens for the pleasure of contemplating the lovely nymph's leg and must start the game all over again. Space 50 requires the player to stop and talk to a female until another comes along to release him or her from this labour. These penalties mock feminine frivolity, French excess and the interactions between men and women.
(Jacobs Rachel)

Exhibitions
- "Playing, Learning, Flirting: Printed Board Games from 18th-Century France". Catalogue exhibition of French eighteenth-century Board Games, 28 March – 28 October 2012, Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (Rothschild Family Trust). Rachel Jacobs, Curator.

bibliografia: 1) ALLEMAGNE, Henry-Renè D': "Le noble jeu de l’oie en France de 1640 à 1950" Ed. Grund, Parigi 1950 (Tav.35).
2) NEGRI, Ilio - VERCELLONI, Virgilio: "I giochi di dadi d'azzardo e di passatempo dei gentiluomini e dei pirati" Introduzione di Caterina Santoro, Lerici Milano 1958.
3) PLOCK, Phillippa - SEVILLE, Adrian:"The Rothschild Collection of printed board games at Waddesdon Manor", in XIIIth Board Game Studies Colloquium, Paris, 14-17 April 2010.
4) JACOBS, Rachel: "Playing, Learning, Flirting: Printed Board Games from 18th-Century France". Catalogue exhibition of French eighteenth-century Board Games, 28 March – 28 October 2012, Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection (Rothschild Family Trust). Rachel Jacobs, Curator.
 
  Desrais et Crepy (De Bellaigue, Geoffrey)
 
 
   
  Accession N°2669.2.27 Waddesdon-The Rothschild Collection
   

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