Rouge

"... power delineates a second dimension that's irreducible to the dimension of knowledge, even though they together produce concretely indivisible composites; but knowledge relates to forms, the Visible, the Utterable, in short to the archive, while power relates to forces, the play of forces, diagrams." (Negotiations: Gilles Deleuze, 1995)

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The first form of roulette was devised in 18th century France. The roulette wheel is believed to be a fusion of the English wheel games Roly-Poly, Reiner, Ace of Hearts, and E.O., the Italian board games of Hoca and Biribi, and "Roulette" from an already existing French board game of that name.

18th Century caricature of gambling on E.O. or "even-odd" wheel

The game has been played in its current form since as early as 1796 in Paris. An early description of the roulette game in its current form is found in a French novel "La Roulette, ou le Jour" by Jaques Lablee, which describes a roulette wheel in the Palais Royal in Paris in 1796. [...] An even earlier reference to a game of this name was published in regulations for New France (Québec) in 1758, which banned the games of "dice, hoca, faro, and roulette."

(Wikipedia - http://www.wikipedia.org/)

Impair

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- 'Your name is Laszlo Zilagy?

- Yes, Your Honour. [...]

Those who have never been exiled... know not what it is to hear a friendly voice in captivity... and would not understand the cause... of the burst of feeling now about to take place.

- You seem the right one to me.

- Thank you, Your Honour.

- Are you ill?

- Sir... I have a confession to make to you. I'm an lrishman. My name is Redmond Barry. I was abducted into the Prussian Army. Now I've been put into your service... by my Captain Potzdorff and his uncle, the Minister of Police... to serve as a watch upon your actions... and to give information to them.

The Chevalier was much affected at thus finding one of his countrymen. For he too was an exile. And a friendly voice, a look... brought the old country back to his memory.'

(Barry Lyndon, S. Kubrick)

Pair

'There is a gentleman in Berlin in the service of the Empress of Austria. He calls himself the Chevalier de Balibari. He appears to be a professional gambler. He's a libertine: fond of women, of good food... polished, obliging. He speaks French and German indifferently. But we have reason to fancy that Monsieur de Balibari... is a native of your country of lreland. And that he has come here as a spy.'

(Barry Lyndon, S. Kubrick)