When we look at the cards for the first time, we never fail to experience a strange sensation. We know that they can be used to divine the future, but all we see are designs with different patterns which do not speak to us immediately. It's as if they were silent or speaking in an unknown language.

The objective of this initiation into French cartomancy is to make it's complex and beautiful language understandable, so that the reader can gradually learn to interpret it.