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Félix Fournier
Félix Fournier (May 3, 1803 - June 9, 1877), was a dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church and a French politician, and bishop of Nantes from 1870 to his death in 1877.
Biography.
Félix Fournier, was born May 3, 1803 in Nantes and died June 9, 1877 in Rome (Italy). Fournier was ordained in 1827. He was vicar and parish priest of the parish of Saint-Nicolas in Nantes from 1836 to 1870 before reaching the Bishopric.
change his actual playing cards to a new deck of cards which had 12 different colours. After the changes he won a lot of prizes in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona etc.
In 1916 Heraclio Fournier died in Vichy. He had no children and because of that his grandson Félix Alfaro Fournier became the owner of the company. Félix started a playing card collection. In 1970, after buying the cards of Thomas De la Rue, he opened a museum called "Museo Fournier de Naipes".
In 1948 Naipes Heraclio