{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O26855"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O26855/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AU3783/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AU3783/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006AU3783","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O26855/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O26855","accessionNumber":"MISC.853-1986","objectType":"Card game","titles":[{"title":"French for Fun, A New Instructive and Amusing Card Game","type":"manufacturer's title"}],"summaryDescription":"The 19th-century practice of teaching French with cards continued well into the 20th century. The use of pictures was probably more satisfying for the players and made the process of learning a foreign language easier. This card game has 32 cards divided into sets of four. It is played in the same way as Happy Families. The aim is to collect ‘families’ of four types of food that go together, according to what meal one might be eating.","physicalDescription":"Design: chromolithographs; printed in mid blue showing an illustration of a clown","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"John Jaques & Son Ltd","id":"A1750"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"AAT25230"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"card","id":"x30344"},{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"}],"techniques":[{"text":"chromolithography","id":"AAT53272"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Chromolithographs on card","categories":[{"text":"Children & Childhood","id":"THES48980"},{"text":"Games","id":"THES48947"},{"text":"Playing cards & Tarot cards","id":"THES48909"},{"text":"Education & Learning","id":"THES252542"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"YVA","id":"THES48593"},"images":["2006AU3783"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"004","id":"THES324283"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Card game","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"published","id":"x30682"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1930s","earliest":"1930-01-01","latest":"1939-12-31"},"association":{"text":"published","id":"x30682"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Miles Tomalin Gift","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"9.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"6.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"An example of a card is \"Ce qu'il me faut pur le diner\" \"DES ENTREMETS\",\n\"aussi, du rôte, du consommé des légumes\" and an illustration of strawberries and cream.\n\nJaques, publishers of Counties of England, used these rules which are the same as Happy Families\n\n\n\n\n\nGames & Puzzles, CGG, 1991","historicalContext":"Rewards: see rules\nForfeits: see rules\nNo. of Players: any\nEquipment required: 60 cards arranged in 15 sets of four, each set having a sentence and the list of items required to make it up and an individual illustration\ncard slipcase, covered with dark blue paper, pictorial label showing title, maker, and game being played.","briefDescription":"Educational card game, French For Fun, published in England by John Jaques & Son Ltd in the 1930s","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Mass produced","id":"THES48863"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["MISC.853-1986"],"accessionNumberNum":"853","accessionNumberPrefix":"MISC","accessionYear":1986,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-01","recordCreationDate":"2000-03-04","availableToBook":false}}