Petit Oracles de les dames, c. 1807

Huck

http://gw.geneanet.org/pierfit?lang=fr&p=bibiane&n=joubert+de+la+salette
The link has a better view on it:

She (born 1742) became widow in 1789


F Bibiane JOUBERT de La SALETTE

Union(s), enfant(s), les petits enfants et les arrière-petits-enfants

Mariée avec Joseph Marie de BARRAL, marquis de Montferrat (1er), né le 21 mars 1742 - Grenoble (38), décédé en 1828 à l’âge de 86 ans, Président à Mortier au Parlement de Grenoble (Parents : H Charles Gabriel Justin de BARRAL, seigneur de Rochechinard 1712-1784 & F Claudine Françoise VANDE de SAINT-ANDRÉ †1791)
Mariée avec Joseph Marie de BREMOND, né entre 1725 et 1730, décédé le 23 mars 1789, Avocat consistorial du Parlement de Grenoble dont
H François Joseph Dominique de BREMOND 1773-1852 marié avant 1800 avec Marie Adélaïde DAIGUILLON
François Joseph Dominique de BREMOND 1773-1852 marié le 5 novembre 1807, Schwerin (Allemagne), avec "Henriette" Charlotte Bernardine Oelgarde von LEHSTEN 1790-1838 dont
F Henriette Thérèse Léopoldine de BREMOND 1811-1907 relation avec Eugène RODRIGUES-HENRIQUÈS 1807-1830
Henriette Thérèse Léopoldine de BREMOND 1811-1907 mariée avec Alphonse ITIER 1802-1877 dont :
F Henriette ITIER 1848-
H Paul-Jules ITIER 1850-1936
H Loudolphe de BREMOND 1816-1895 marié avec Amélie GEMEAU 1832 dont :
F Joséphine de BREMOND 1851-1926
H Paul Ernest Henri de BRÉMOND 1860-1934
 

Philippe

Yes but they maybe had a relationship before the marriage as the divorce decree (4-30-1794) of De Barral with his first wife Claudine de Guérin de Tencin (the cardinal's family) is based on the man's fault.
 

Huck

I don't know, how the Barrel family got the title Marquis of Montferrat - till 1708 it belonged to the Gonzaga-Nevers. I don't know, what it precisely meant, possibly an empty title not connected to rights or possession.
But they seem to have lived in Grenoble close to Montferrat.

The last Montferrat ruler ... Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1652 - 1708) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinando_Carlo_Gonzaga,_Duke_of_Mantua_and_Montferrat
Ferdinando Carlo again chose the French side in the War of the Spanish Succession. In 1701, when the anti-French coalition forces conquered Mantua, he fled to Casale, leaving his consort Anna Isabella Gonzaga behind as regent during his absence. He paid heavily for his choice, when the French were chased back over the Alps in 1706. Already declared a traitor in 1701 by Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, he was blamed with felony by the Diet of Regensburg, 30 June 1708, and all his possessions were confiscated.

The House of Savoy obtained the remaining half of Montferrat, having already conquered the first half in the War of the Mantuan Succession in 1631. The Duchy of Mantua became Austrian and ceased its independent existence. Ferdinando Carlo died the same year in Padua.

One half of Montferrat went to Austria, the other half to Savoy. Barral and his title seems to have been a French claim.

In the long centuries before, Montferrat was involved in Eastern claims, starting with members of the Montferrat family as kings or Queen of Jerusalem in 1192.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Jerusalem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Montferrat,_Count_of_Jaffa_and_Ascalon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_V_of_Jerusalem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_of_Montferrat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_of_Montferrat

In 14th century (since 1306) Montferrat became object to the Greek Palaeologus family, who ruled as emperors in Constantinople since 1259 till 1453.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaiologos
John Palaeologus (heir of Constantinople) married in 2nd marriage Sophia of Montferrat (bride from Montferrat in Italy), who once was promised to Filippo Maria Visconti (strongly involved in the production of Trionfi cards). The marriage was divorced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_of_Montferrat
John in cooperation with pope Eugen arranged the council of Ferrara/Florence 1438/39 (likely very important for the invention of the Trionfi cards (first note of Trionfi cards in 1440, mentioned as a Florentine production)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_VIII_Palaiologos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_of_Montferrat

Another Montferrat-marriage (around 1440) to an Eastern kingdom involved a Ferrarese delegation, between them a person, who was later involved in a Trionfi-card production in Ferrara 1454 for Borso d'Este.

The right on Montferrat went to the Gonzaga-family in 1536, cause a marriage between Gonzaga and Montferrat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_II_Gonzaga,_Duke_of_Mantua
Since Isabella d'Este (if it wasn't already earlier so) as wife of the ruler of Mantova the Gonzaga court was involved in Tarocchi productions (likely in 1512 for Massimiliano Sforza, who reconstituted the Sforza rule in Milan).

There's some rather precise suspicion, that the young Louis Gonzaga, son of the above marriage and later duke of Nevers, was involved in the production of the Tarot de Paris in 1559 together with a young member of the Strozzi (both were then in French service). Family heraldic of Gonzaga and Strozzi appears at the 2 of coins. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Gonzaga,_Duke_of_Nevers

coins-ace-2.jpg


The Gonzaga-Nevers family got the rights on Mantova and Montferrat later (1627). One of the female members of the family (later twice the queen of Poland) was responsible for the first known French Tarot game rules (1637, published about 20 years later by Marolles).

And then the Barral family got the right to claim the title Marquis de Montferrat (in 1708 ?)

Well, we have then a family with not precisely defined connections to earlier Constantinople, who married the sister of de la Salette, French artillery general till 1791 and for some time Etteilla's pupil.
Guignard was his cousin, thinking about that, then perhaps the relation to the Marquisat of Montferrat favoured Guignard to become an ambassador to Constantinople in 1768, so it might have been not accidental, that both have had some relation to Constantinople. It's also normal, that both come from the same city, Grenoble. De la Salette also came from Grenoble, that's also not an accidental feature.

From Barral's biography I get, that he also was interested in freemasonry.

"Joseph Marie de Barral, haut dignitaire de la franc-maçonnerie grenobloise, devient en 1770 président à mortier au parlement du Dauphiné et sera très impliqué en 1788 dans la journée des Tuiles et ses suites révolutionnaires. En 1789, il renonce à ses titres et organise avec quelques amis, notamment Aubert-Dubayet qui sera député de l'Assemblée législative en 1791, la Société des amis de la Constitution."

"journée des Tuiles"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tiles
"The Day of the Tiles (French: Journée des Tuiles) is an event that took place in the French town of Grenoble on 7 June 1788. It was among the first of the revolts which preceded the French Revolution, and is credited by a few historians as the start of it."
Grenoble was then a place with 20.000 inhabitants
"la Société des amis de la Constitution" were Jacobins, not so powerful in 1791, but later. Robespierre belonged to them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin
The wedding took place in July 1494, that's the month, when Robespierre was killed. The marriage took place at the 3rd of July, the death of Robespierre at 28th.
Maybe this has not much to say.

Well,we have, that 5 related (somehow "famous") persons are all "from Grenoble". Barral (with Grenoble freemason connections), his new wife and her brother (with Etteilla and freemason connections), his older wife and her cardinal's family and his cousin Guignard.
As all are from Grenoble, it's not very surprising, that they married between each other, but more or less normal behavior.

Giugnard was an outsider of the group, just by destiny. With 15 years he became a soldier, and it's not clear how much time he spend in Grenoble after it. But as a minister he was probably a rather important man inside the family for some time (he was twice a minister).
(second time) "Later, in August 1790, he was also named by King Louis XVI as the Ministre de l'Intérieur."
"... he held office until January 1791." This wasn't rather long.
"Shortly after his resignation he went to Stockholm, where his brother-in-law was the ambassador of the Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold II, to the Swedish court."
"In 1795 he joined King Louis XVI's middle brother, the comte de Provence, at Verona as an émigré minister of the House of Bourbon. After the death of Louis XVI's son, the comte de Provence declared himself King Louis XVIII of France".

"Later, Saint-Priest accompanied Louis XVIII's exiled court to Blankenburg [near Braunscheig, August 1796 - 24 August 1796 - 10 February 1798] and Mittau [then Russia]."

His wife seems to have stayed in Sweden and a lover Aminoff there, as it seems.

They had married 1774 in Constantinople and her father died there in 1793. So her father should have been a very long time in Constantinople.
 

Philippe

I'm from Grenoble too MikeH and I'm afraid you are mistaken

There's Montferrat, a little state in Italy, of which you trace the history and Montferrat not far from Grenoble in the Isère department.
 

Huck

I'm from Grenoble too MikeH and I'm afraid you are mistaken

There's Montferrat, a little state in Italy, of which you trace the history and Montferrat not far from Grenoble in the Isère department.

naturally, I just guess ... :) ... in which point do you think I'm mistaken?
 

Philippe

The Barral are from middle-class extraction, they are given a peerage lately. Montferrat is a village near the Lac de Paladru. They have nothing to do with the Gonzague or Constantinople.
 

Philippe

But the second part of your post is insightful.

I'n currently reading Guignard's memoirs. I'm certain he can't be the recipient of the deck and however it must be someone close to him in one way or another. As an important man he is in a circle that includes many people, many nationalities.

Taking the problem by the other end there are so different trends, sometimes contradictorily, in the deck, different periods, how such a thing could have been conceived ?

And it may be the oldest Etteilla known ?
Do we know how the deck was discovered or has ended at the BN ?
 

MikeH

Huck wrote,
ell,we have, that 5 related (somehow "famous") persons are all "from Grenoble". Barral (with Grenoble freemason connections), his new wife and her brother (with Etteilla and freemason connections), his older wife and her cardinal's family and his cousin Guignard.
As all are from Grenoble, it's not very surprising, that they married between each other, but more or less normal behavior.
There is also Hugand, in Lyon, in contact with de la Salette in Grenoble. On p. 12 or 13 of this thread, I wrote:
1791, Lyons. Hugand publishes Cartomancie, our l’art de developper la chaine des evenements de la vie: recreations astrologiques par le livre de Thot. (DDD p. 101)

1791. Dictionnaire synonymique du livre de Thot published anonymously but probably written by Joubert de La Salette, an army officer then stationed in Grenoble. His name is mentioned as author of such a work by another student, de Bonrecueille. The author himself says he “lives in a village” and is “joined to considerable details related to the troops of whom I am in command.” In its “Preliminary discourse,” the author says that he was preceded “in the same undertaking” by another member, M. Jejalel (Hugand’s “Cabalistic” name). He also mentions that another member, M. de B., is occupied with the same task. The core of the book, DDD write (p. 110), is its ‘Table-des-synonymes de livre de Thot,’ pp. 19-57, following Etteilla’s order of the cards and their keywords.
Is there anyone we know answering to the abbreviation "M. de B."?

Lyon is not far from Grenoble (112 km distant), in fact one of the nearest cities of any size. Moreover I see that there is a suburb called "Saint Priest": https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Lyo...8c10cd6e995398!2m2!1d5.724524!2d45.188529!3e0

Is that the domain of the Comte de Saint Priest, i.e. Guignard?

Philippe wrote
And it may be the oldest Etteilla known ?
The relation to Etteilla is of course of great interest. Since the pictures are mostly not anything like Etteilla's, the relationship would be to the keywords. If so, that is interesting, because people tend to think of Etteilla's cartomancy as related to the pictures, when in fact--I believe--it was related to the keywords, and the pictures merely added glamor, mystery, and income.

So to what extent does the 66 card deck borrow from Etteilla, and at what period (i.e. 1770s or 1780s)? That is why a list of these keywords is important to have--not something someone such as I or Huck can do, given our unfamiliarity with French script. Etteilla himself put out his first original deck in 1789, a tarot deck, as DDD clearly establish. In the Cahiers Etteilla merely suggests that the reader take an ordinary tarot deck and add his keywords and numbers.
 

Huck

The Barral are from middle-class extraction, they are given a peerage lately. Montferrat is a village near the Lac de Paladru. They have nothing to do with the Gonzague or Constantinople.

Well, if you're sure about it.

But the second part of your post is insightful.

I'n currently reading Guignard's memoirs. I'm certain he can't be the recipient of the deck and however it must be someone close to him in one way or another. As an important man he is in a circle that includes many people, many nationalities.

Taking the problem by the other end there are so different trends, sometimes contradictorily, in the deck, different periods, how such a thing could have been conceived ?

And it may be the oldest Etteilla known ?
Do we know how the deck was discovered or has ended at the BN ?

I've read, that he was the first who got the title ministre interieure. If this is true, than the ministre interieure couldn't appear in the deck before the storm on the Bastille.

The Etteilla Tarot was 1788, I think.

If we assume, that it was arranged during his time as ministre interieure ("Il est nommé ministre de l'Intérieur (French wiki: C’est la première fois qu’un ministre est nommé ministre de l’Intérieur en France")., then there was not much time (finished at January 1491). One could think of a private edition inside the family, but it has a sort of official allowance on one of the cards APR.

Perhaps somebody in Grenoble was proud, that they had a high ministre "from Grenoble". Perhaps they modified an older deck with 3 ministres and a prelat and some heroes of Troja.
Perhaps de la Salette, who was inspired by the recent Etteilla production (DDD writes, he get an initiation in 1988). Salette was interested in music. In that time the opera "Zauberflöte" was produced, with freemason content. But it's too late ... September 1791. Another comparable work is "The Philosopher's stone ...", one year earlier.
(Somebody mentioned, that the deck remembered him on opera figures).
 

Huck

"Is there anyone we know answering to the abbreviation "M. de B."?"

### I think, that DDD thinks of "de Bonrecueille", which is mentioned in the following sentence at p. 110