kwaw
That's interesting, kwaw, but I wonder how the Lenormand began to be read with houses. And especially how the houses were ascribed the same meanings as the Lenormand cards rather than the older method of the house designations you so aptly described.
The cards were originally meant to be laid out in sequence as (a grid-like?) positions in a board game, so I suppose rider = game position 1, became rider=house position 1, etc.,
I am not sure, but I think the instructions for the game had them laid out in order in a 8x4+4 grid? Or possibly that was in the PL instructions (can't recall off-hand without looking it up).
So in accordance with the original game, it would be natural that the house positions took on the same names as the game positions, and used an 8x4+4 grid.
I am not sure the other method (Foli etc.,) is the older method in reference to Lenormand. The names & meanings are older than both the board game & lenormand (from a text from 1788), but there is no evidence of these being applied as a method of Lenormand prior to L'Oracle Parfait, 1875. So it is a late adaption of an earlier method to Lenormand. The use of game-position = house position was possibly/probably used with Lenormand prior to that, and thus be the earlier/older method.