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That great house of cards, the new Cursaal, had not yet arisen; and its table-d'hôte, reading-room, and profane mysteries of roulette and rouge-et-noir, found temporary domicile in a narrow, disreputable-looking den in the main street, where accommodation of all kinds, but especially for dinner, was scanty in the extreme.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various
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Napoleon, was shelved at the peace, and has lived since then on a moderate annuity, of which one-fifth procures him the barest necessaries of existence, whilst the other four parts are annually absorbed in the vortex of rouge-et-noir.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various
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One evening while watching the rouge-et-noir I noticed a lady just in front of me, magnificently dressed in all, save that there was an entire absence of jewelry.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell
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He was drinking Rhine-wine with the same young men who were with him at _rouge-et-noir_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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Thus this Francois Blanc, with perfect equanimity, watched the thousand thousands of butterflies and moths of society scorch their wings in the terrific flame that glowed in his Casino, while he looked on, a cynical observer, despising the fools enraptured with roulette and fascinated with rouge-et-noir.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell
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"Faro" went against them; "odd-and-even" was worse; _rouge-et-noir_ worst of all; and at night they were sober and dead broke, an unpleasant but not infrequent phase of boat life.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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We did not see any good monte suckers, so I opened up a game of rouge-et-noir and did a fair business until 11 o'clock; then I closed up and went to the bar, where I met a gentleman I had often seen on the packets.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol
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The auction-room is often the centre of fatal attraction towards it, just as the billiard-room and the _rouge-et-noir_ table are to excesses of another kind.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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It was not long until I had a faro bank in full blast in the city, and a rouge-et-noir and wheel game at a resort on the shell road, about seven miles out from the city.
Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol
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He loved the ladies, loved a good table, loved the games of crabs and _rouge-et-noir_, was a judge of hock and champagne.
A Sailor of King George Frederick Hoffman
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