Major Arcana · III
L'Impératrice
from The Conver Tarot de Marseille, blocks of 1760; this printing c. 1809-1833
A crowned empress holds a shield charged with an eagle on her right arm and a scepter topped by an orb and cross in her left. The eagle is the arms of empire; she and the Emperor two cards on are the pattern's matched pair of worldly power.
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