Editing Écarté (section)

==In popular culture==
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Écarté seems to be the [[card game]] played by actors in the 1895 ''[[Partie de cartes]]'' [[Lumière brothers]] film.

Écarté is mentioned in ''[[The Count of Monte Cristo]]'' by [[Alexandre Dumas|Dumas]] as being a game the French prefer over others, such as whist.

A game of Écarté is played (and described in some detail) by the protagonist in [[Gaston Leroux]]'s short story "In Letters of Fire", to test a man who claims to have made a deal with the Devil that ensures he can never lose a game.

Écarté is also mentioned in [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s 1839 story "[[William Wilson (short story)|William Wilson]]".<ref>Poe, Edgar Allan. ''Selected Tales'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980)</ref>

It is played in chapter 10 of the [[Sherlock Holmes]] novel ''[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]''. A game of Écarté also figures prominently in [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Conan Doyle]]'s ''[[Brigadier Gerard#The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard|The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard]]'', Chapter 3, "How the Brigadier Held the King".

It is mentioned in the lyrics of a song from [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s 1889 comic opera ''[[The Gondoliers]]'', in which the character of the Duchess of Plaza-Toro sings "At middle class party, I play at Écarté, and I'm by no means a beginner".

The game is mentioned in Chapter VI of ''[[The Woman in White (novel)|The Woman in White]]'' by [[Wilkie Collins]], and in Chapter XII of the same author's ''[[Man and Wife (novel)|Man and Wife]]''.

The game is mentioned in Chapter I of ''[[The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard|Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard]]'' by [[Anatole France]].

The game is specifically not played in favor of piquet in chapter 5 of ''[[Ashenden: Or the British Agent]]'' by [[W. Somerset Maugham]]

In the film ''[[The Happiest Days of Your Life (film)|The Happiest Days of Your Life]]'', Arnold Billings, played by [[Richard Wattis]], while introducing the new master to the Common Room, says that "Mathews, the Second Master, plays a good hand at Écarté".

In Chapter XIII of [[Charles Dickens]]' ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'', the Club plays "écarte" (sic) at [[Eatanswill]].

Écarté appears to be the game played by Francis Poldark and Matthew Sanson in Season 1, Episode 5 of the BBC show ''[[Poldark (2015 TV series)|Poldark]]'', and similarly is played by Ross Poldark and Matthew Sanson in Season 1, Episode 6. Francis loses his mine to Matthew in Episode 5 during a high-stakes game of Écarté, before Ross catches Matthew cheating at Écarté in Episode 6.