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Mariage may refer to:
- Mariage (card game), a European card game with bonuses for "marrying" king and queen of the same suit
- Mariage (film), a 1974 film by Claude Lelouch
or Mariagespiel is a German 6-card trick-and-draw game for two players in which players score bonus points for the "marriage" of King and Queen of the same suit. The game, first documented in 1715 in Leipzig, spawned numerous offshoots throughout continental Europe. Many of these are still the national card games of their respective countries.
The King–Queen card games, also known as the marriage group, are a family of point-trick games of which the Mariagenspiel is the earliest and most typical representative. Games in this family are typically played by 2–4 players using a pack of 20–40 cards, with aces and tens scoring 11 and 10 points in tricks, respectively, and marriages scoring 40 points in trumps and 20 points in a plain suit. An elaborated form of Mariagenspiel known under various names including Klaberjass and Bela is especially popular among Jewish communities and spread worldwide. Its offshoots form the Jass group Jack–Nine card games, characterized by the fact that the Jack and Nine of the trump suit are the highest trumps.
According to David Parlett, the modern German/Austrian Mariagenspiel variant 66 or Schnapsen, which remains close to the original, is "one of the best two-handers ever devised". The "marriage" theme seems to have originated in France in the context of unrelated card games. Two-handed Schnapsen and three-handed Mariáš and Ulti are the most popular card game in the area of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Klaberjass, first documented in the Low Countries as a Jewish game, developed into Dutch Klaverjas, Swiss Jass and French Belote. Bezique and its variants Binokel and Pinochle are further examples of popular games in the King–Queen or marriage family. This card game should not be confused with Nepalese card game marriage.
Usage examples of "mariage".
Elle guerit les malades, recommande les jeunes gens a leurs examens, fait des mariages et vend du chocolat.
Crois-tu que les filles belles comme toi, qui ont fait de grands mariages, ont reussi sans le secours de leurs meres?
Pensez-donc, un mariage entre le riche Savine et la belle Corysandre, quel inepuisable sujet de conversation!
Houssu, si le prince Savine ne poursuit pas un mariage, je suis ton homme, car tu as des droits a faire valoir.
Comment ne se fut-il pas employe corps et ame au mariage de Corysandre?
Barizel, de la belle Corysandre avec le prince Savine avait fait du tapage, celle de son mariage avec le duc de Naurouse en fit un bien plus grand encore.
Si vous voulez que votre fille soit prochainement veuve avec un ou deux enfants qui seront les miserables heritiers de leur pere pour la sante, faites ce mariage qui, pour vous, maintenant avertie, serait un crime.
Plusieurs fois Roger avait ecrit a Harly pour lui parler de ce mariage et lui dire combien il aimait Corysandre.
Barizel les raisons qui me font rompre un mariage que je desirais ardemment.
Tout de suite Roger se mit a ecrire cette lettre, qui fut longuement explicative et surtout ardemment passionnee, mais qui ne dit pas un mot des projets de mariage avec Dayelle fils.
Je legitimerais cet enfant par ce mariage et je lui assurerais mon nom, mon titre et ma fortune.
Gaston qui, sans doute, voulait le legitimer par mariage subsequent quand il le pourrait faire.
Voila pourquoi je ne voudrais pas te voir considerer comme fait un mariage qui, en realite, peut ne pas se faire.
Pour cela il aurait fallu que par contrat de mariage il se depouillat entierement de la fortune de Gaston en faveur de Sixte.
France, Italy, and the Romish countries, and which seems to have been painfully common in England in the seventeenth century, when, by a mariage de convenance, a young girl is married up to a rich idiot or a decrepit old man.