Ducale

About

Ducale is a French playing-card and traditional-games brand founded in 1946 in Saint-Max near Nancy, in the workshop of card maker Jean-Marie Simon, and named after the Cite Ducale in Nancy, the "capital of the Dukes of Lorraine". The site presents the brand as a games publisher first, stating that the game has been its core métier for more than 70 years and that it modernises inherited popular card games while promoting conviviality, sharing and environmentally conscious production (Imprim'Vert label, recyclable cardboard, PEFC-certified board). Its catalogue is dominated by French playing ca…