Tarot de Maléfices

Le Tarot de Maléfices (French: "The Tarot of Evil Acts") was a Tarot deck designed for "Maléfices", a French occult and conspiracy role-playing game by publisher Jeux Descartes set in 1870-1914 in Gilded Age France. It is supposed to be the deck authored by Le Club Pythagore (French: "The Pythagorean Society"), a fictional society from the era involved in occultism, spiritualism and magical research.

Major Arcana

The 20 Major Arcana are,

Upper Arcana
*"Le Grand Livre ("The Great Book")" = "XXI. The World."
*"La Chance ("Luck")" = "XXII. The Fool."
*"L'Archange ("The Archangel")" = "XX. Judgment ("The Final Trump")."
*"Le Vicaire ("The Vicar")" = "XVI. The Tower ("The House of God")."
*"La Lune Noire ("The Dark Moon")" = "XVIII. The Moon."
*"La Mort ("Death")" = "XIII. Death."
*"Le Diable ("The Devil")" = "XV. The Devil ("Lust, Separation")."
*"Le Sorcier ("The Sorceror")" = "VI. The Lovers ("Love, Duality")."
*"Adam" = "V. High Priest", "IV. Emperor", & "XV. Eros ("Lust")."
*"Eve" = "II. High Priestess", "III. Empress", & "VI. Venus ("Love")."
*"La Roue de Fortune ("The Wheel of Fortune")" = "X. Fate."

Lower Arcana
*"L'Alchimiste ("The Alchemist")" = "XIX. The Sun."
*"Le Cabaliste ("The Cabalist")" = "XVII. The Star."
*"Le Médecin ("The Physician")" = "XIV. Temperance."
*"Le Juge ("The Judge")" = "VIII. Justice."
*"Le Moine ("The Monk")" = "IX. The Hermit ("Time")."
*"Le Savetier ("The Cobbler")" = "I. The Magician ("The Mountebank")."
*"Le Centurion ("The Captain")" = "VII. The Chariot ("Victory")."
*"Le Laboureur ("The Peasant")" = "XI. Strength ("Force")."
*"L'Artiste ("The Artisan")" = "XII. The Hanged Man ("Prudence")."

The Arcana are not numbered. There are also no Suite cards. The eleven Upper Arcana cards are full frame and deal with one view. The next nine (or eleven in the later deck) Lower Arcana cards are split-frame and deal with a depiction of the figure on one side of the diagonal line and a bestial parody on the other.

"Eve" combines the "High Priestess" and "Empress". "Adam" combines the "Emperor" and "High Priest". A later edition added "Le Medium" (the "High Priestess") and "L'Archiviste" (the "High Priest"), therefore making "Eve" equal to "The Empress" and "Adam" equal to "The Emperor".