Jack (playing card) Jack (playing card) A jack or knave is a playing card which, in traditional French and English decks, pictures a man in the traditional or historic aristocratic dress generally associated with Europe of the 16th or 17th century. The usual rank of a jack, within its suit, plays as if it was an 11 (that is, between the 10 and the queen). As the lowest face (or "court") card, the jack often represents a minimum standard — for example, many poker games require a minimum hand of a pair of jacks ("jacks or better") in order to continue play. The
Claude Lancelot "Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre la langue grecque" or "New Method of Learning Greek" (1655); "Jardin des racines grecques" or "Garden of the Greek Roots" (1660); and, with Antoine Arnauld, "Grammaire générale et raisonnée" or "General and Rational Grammar" (1660), otherwise known as the Port-Royal Grammar. In early 1660, Lancelot was forced to leave the Abbey, and was ultimately exiled to Brittany. Lancelot died near the Holy-Cross Abbey, in Quimperlé, in 1695. Claude Lancelot Claude Lancelot (c. 1615 – 1695) was a French Jansenist monk and grammarian. Lancelot was born in Paris. He participated in the creation of the Petites écoles