Order of the Yellow Ribbon

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The "Palais Ducal" in Nevers. A place where one played strange games.

The Order of the Yellow Ribbon was founded in 1600 in Nevers by French-Italian nobleman Charles III, Duke of Nevers, nephew of the French king Henry III, and knights would be imposed very peculiar tasks.

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They would have to practice the Italian game "la mara" (raising of even or odd numbers of fingers), to ride on a gray horse with red-dyed bridle and to share their goods. Ackermann writes that, according to some sources, partner exchange would also belong to the obligations of membership .

The French king forbade the Order soon after its founding. This remarkable chivalric order, one that could be perceived as a mockery of existing chivalric orders, is nevertheless included in the historical orders of France.

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