Trictrac board game

Meaning

Lemma.

The dice-and-counter game places Julie in sociable contact with shop assistants and soldiers while she passes as a draper’s clerk. It is distinct from biribi, the gambling game elsewhere in the novel. Reading it simply as generic gambling would miss the concrete tavern pastime through which she inhabits her temporary masculine role. The English preserves the game’s name and the edition supplies an explanatory note.