Marché 7 Familles
“Marché 7 Familles” Happy Families card game published by France Cartes
“Marché 7 Familles” Happy Families published by France Cartes
An attractive Happy Families type card game from France with seven sets of extended families each with 6 members: Son, Daughter, Mother, Father, Grandfather, Grandmother. The cards can be aligned to show the entire families working in the marketplace at their respective trades, thus illustrating how the generations get along together! A closer examination reveals that it is the same family in each case, practising a different trade: booksellers, grocers, drinks, flowers, cakes, ties & ice cream. The till is always operated by the Mother in the family and a little blue bird plays with the children.
Above: “Marché 7 Familles” Happy Families card game (and rules) published by Ducale (France Cartes), c.1985. 42 cards + title card + rules. The reverse shows blue nursery animals playing cards.
By Simon Wintle
Member since February 01, 1996
Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.
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