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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dan01" data-source="post: 2136748" data-attributes="member: 7360">King of Spades     DavidKing of Hearts     Charles (possibly Charlemagne, or Charles VII, where Rachel would then be the pseudonym of his mistress, Agnès Sorel)King of Diamonds     Julius CaesarKing of Clubs     Alexander the GreatQueen of Spades     PallasQueen of Hearts     JudithQueen of Diamonds     Rachel (either biblical, historical (see Charles above), or mythical as a corruption of the Celtic Ragnel, relating to Lancelot below)Queen of Clubs     Argine (possibly an anagram of regina, which is Latin for queen, or perhaps Argea, wife of Polybus and mother of Argus)Knave of Spades     Ogier the Dane/Holger Danske (a knight of Charlemagne)Knave of Hearts     La Hire (comrade-in-arms to Joan of Arc, and member of Charles VII's court)Knave of Diamonds     HectorKnave of Clubs     Judas Maccabeus, or Lancelothabai <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_card" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_card</a></blockquote>

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