Petit Lenormand · 1799 → today
The Lenormand Cards
The 36 cards, from the 19th-century originals to modern reading practice
Thirty-six plain images, a ship, a house, a heart, read together like a sentence. This site uses public-domain cards from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, with the meanings printed on the cards themselves about 130 years ago.[1]
The Grand Tableau
Laid out as the instruction sheet of the Bruges deck directs: four rows of eight, and four more centred below. Tap a card to read it.[1]
A card for today
Hold a question in mind, then draw.
History
From an 1799 board game to a deck named after Paris's most famous fortune-teller
How to read
Near and far, reading in sentences, and the Grand Tableau
Appendix
Summary table, playing-card insets, the 36 houses and a glossary