Note 30 — LETTER THE EIGHTY-FIFTH THE MARQUISE DE MERTEUIL TO THE VICOMTE DE VALMONT
Ernest Christopher Dowson translation
Some persons may not, perhaps, be aware that a medley (macédoine) is a succession of sundry different games of chance, amongst which each player has a right to choose when it is his turn to deal. It is one of the inventions of the century.