Finally then we have the rainbow in all its glory, displaying of all the colours we have discussed over the week. Little wonder that it is a popular symbol for unity and acceptance, and represents a long sought after place where we can feel free to express our whole selves, without being disrespected for our feelings.
This set also fulfils this week`s brief of being highly coloured. It shows children, in period costume, and they are amazingly cute cards. However not all of the cards have a four number date as we know it, most have either "siecle" which means century, or a period like "Empire". Nobody seems to agree on what the set was planned to be called, either, and so there are many different titles, though the English translation that seems the most prevalent is "Weather Phenomena" - I tend to feel this is not right, for though there are phenomena in as much as rare events, like the earthquake, the cards of rain, and cold, are what we call normal weather.
Perhaps, though the back is a most charming image, it would have been an idea to have just a little information there as well. Don`t you think?
The cards I know of so far are :
- La Chaleur - Moderne - heat
- Le Vent - Empire - wind
- Arc-en-Ciel - 1830 - rainbow
- La Pluie - 1850 - rain
- Tempete - moderne - storm at sea
- L`Inondation - XIII siecle - flood
- La Grele - Louis XIII - hail (number on left hand side of front)
- Le Froid - XVI siecle - cold
- L`avalanche - IX siecle - avalanche
- La Neige - Louis XV - snow
- Le Tremblement de Terre - Louis XVI - earthquake
Thanks to everyone who supplied one or more of these, and we are still after a description for card number three. When I started this list, do note it was in two parts - the second being a list of cards that looked the same but had no numbers, then I was informed that these did have numbers, and on the fronts, but not in the same place as the ones I had already found and put in the first list.