Benois Tarot de Besançon

The deck keeps the emphatic outlines, compact figures and repeated suit emblems of continental printed tarot while changing two prominent trumps. Jupiter and Juno make regional adaptation visible: a deck tradition can preserve a structure while revising culturally sensitive images.

Besançon-pattern packs circulated in parts of France, Switzerland and neighboring regions. Their most recognizable feature is the substitution of Juno and Jupiter for the Papess and Pope. This 1818 Strasbourg example by J. B. Benois is treated as a specific historical edition, not as the only form of the wider family.