Republican Culture (Day of Glory)

Games

 * Playing cards: Decks of cards printed in the republics (apart from novelty ones) can be easily identified by the following cards:

REPUBLICAN NAME		TRADITIONAL EQUIVALENT		IMAGE Law 			ace 				a sword and scales device Philosopher 		King 				an older man spirit 			queen 				a female with wings Patriot 		jack				a young man bearing arms


 * chess: The standard chess set used around the word is the republican one:

REPUBLICAN NAME		TRADITIONAL EQUIVALENT		IMAGE standard bearer 	King				a flag Sgt-Major		Queen Canon			rook Dragoon			Knights Soldiers		Pawns

When a player place his opponents' standard bearer in peril, he calls "to the flag" When a player takes his opponents' standard bearer, he calls "victory"

Many countries use different names for traditional reasons although they most often then not use the same set which can sometime lead to some confusion.

Literature

 * Blue Books: books that traditionaly contained revolutionary poems, songs & short stories and bound by a plain blue cover. In modern parlance, it refers to cheap novels made for the masses that contain a strong patriotic theme.

Although it originaly refered to the colour of the soldiers uniform in france, even some countries that historicaly had a different one have taken to use the term "blue books".

Monuments

 * One of the most commonly seen statue in the various republic is one of Rousseau.


 * Temple of immortality: monument to those who died for a republic. one of the biggest is in Paris in the Invalids square.