TAROT by FRANÇOIS HERI  Solothurn 1730, Switzerland

By 1730, François Heri had already made a Marseille-style tarot in 1718. This later deck is a Besançon variant, meaning the High Priestess and Pope cards are replaced by the Roman gods Juno and Jupiter. The switch was likely both a response to Catholic sensibilities around religious figures on playing cards and a strategy for reaching Protestant audiences in parts of France, southwestern Germany, and Switzerland where such decks flourished. This Tarot de Marseille Heritage facsimile is limited to 1,500 copies.