Pot Game (A. Denys ed., A. Munier printer, 1905) - Bruno

The game evokes the "fiches" affair of 1904. The Grand Orient de France, Freemasonry's main obedience, had filed files on officers according to their religious and republican leanings. Bidegain, deputy secretary of the Grand Orient, handed over the files in his care, and the names of the members were revealed to parliament and the press. The scandal was enormous, culminating in the suicide of the nationalist deputy Syveton.
The course of the game parodies that of Masonic initiation. It begins in the cabinet of reflection, and ends at the highest degree of the hierarchy: the 33rd. In the slang of the time, a casserole was a whistle-blower. For a long time, it was used as an insult to describe Freemasons.
The boxes represent the main members: Camille Pelletan, Minister of the Navy (box 1); Bienvenu-Martin (box 2); Delcassé, Minister of Foreign Affairs (box 9); Vadécard, Secretary General of the Grand Orient (box 15); Delpeuch, President of the Grand Orient and Senator for Ariège (box 18); Réveillaud (box 23); Lafferre, President of the Grand Orient after Delpeuch (box 32); Emile Combes, President of the Council (box 33) : Combes was a former seminarian, hence the nickname Vénérable Frère la défroque (modeled on the title given to a person who heads a lodge).