Jack (playing card) warrior) for the Jack of Hearts; Hector (mythological hero of the Iliad) for the jack of diamonds; and Lancelot or Judas Maccabeus for the jack of clubs. In some southern Italian decks, there are androgynous knaves that are sometimes referred to as maids. In the Sicilian Tarot deck, the knaves are unambiguously female and are also known as maids. As this deck also includes queens, it is the only traditional set to survive into modern times with two ranks of female face cards. This pack may have been influenced by the obsolete Portuguese deck which also had female knaves. 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