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Updated: June 25, 2025

It is surrounded by a crowd of persons of both sexes, squeezed together, who, all suspended between fear and hope, are waiting, with eager eyes and open mouth, for the favourable or luckless chance. I will suppose that the banker or person who deals the cards, announces "rouge perd, couleur gagne." The oracle has spoken.

Francis W. Blagdon - Paris as It Was and as It Is

Those who have visited Baden-Baden and her Kursaal sisters in the height of the season need not be told that no "church-face" ever equalled in solemnity the countenances of those who surround the fatal tables, waiting for the stony lips of the croupier to announce "Noir perd" or "Rouge gagne."

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858

As for instance, 'Il est vrai qu'on s'y perd, mais que voulez-vous que je vous dise? il y a bien du pour et du contre; un petit Resident ne voit gueres le fond du sac. Il faut attendre. Those sort of expletives are of infinite use; and nine people in ten think they mean something.

Earl of Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield - Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1756-58

"I had a very late glimpse," I answered, "and it was all I could possibly desire." "I have always noticed," rejoined M. Pigeonneau, "That your desires are more moderate than mine. Que voulez-vous? I am of the old school. Je crois que la race se perd. I regret the departure of that young girl: she had an enchanting smile. Ce sera une femme d'esprit. For the mother, I can console myself.

Henry James - The Pension Beaurepas

I remember one thing he said: Monsieur, ce que fait la fortune de la banque ce n'est pas le petit avantage qu'elle tire du refait quoique cela y est pour quelquechose c'est la te'me'rite' de ceux qui perdent, et la timidite' de ceux qui gagnent." "And," says Vizard, "there is a French proverb founded on experience: "C'est encore rouge qui perd, Et encore noir. Mais toujours blanc qui gagne."

Charles Reade - A Woman-Hater

"La bizarrerie des loix," says Mercier, "et la varieté des coutumes font que l'avocat le plus savant devient un ignore des qu'il se trouve en Gasgogne, ou en Normandie. Il perd a Vernon, un procés qu'il avoit gagné a Poissy.

Sir Archibald Alison - Travels in France during the years 1814-15 : Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.

Gaston, who had now also seated himself, listened to this attentively. "I see. It was a kind of delicacy." "Oh a 'kind'!" She desperately smiled. He remained a little with his eyes on her face. "Was it for me?" "Of course it was for you." "Ah how strange you are!" he cried with tenderness. "Such contradictions on s'y perd. I wish you'd say that to THEM, that way. Everything would be right."

Henry James - The Reverberator

"Messieurs, faites votre jeu! . . . Le jeu est fait! . . . Rien ne va plus! . . . Rouge gagne et la couleur! . . . Rouge gagne, la couleur perd! . . . Rouge perd et la couleur! . . . " Such were the monotonous continually recurring sentences, always spoken in the same impassive tones, to which I listened as I stood by the tables in the gaming-rooms of Monte Carlo.

Anna Bonus Kingsford - Dreams and Dream Stories

"Dix francs, et je ferai fortune dix francs, et je ferai fortune " The old words seemed to set themselves to a tune in Madelon's head, chiming in with the croupier's perpetual "Rouge gagne et la couleur," "Rouge perd et la couleur," whilst the two precious coins grew warm in the little hand that was clasped so tightly over them.

E. Frances (Eleanor Frances) Poynter - My Little Lady