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See also: Jean Petitot (q.v.), and was instructed in enamelling by his See also: father
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Some of his See also: works so closely resemble those of the elder Petitot that it is difficult to distinguish between them, and he was really the only serious See also: rival his father ever had
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He settled for a while in See also: London, where he remained till 1682, and painted many enamel portraits of See also: Charles II
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In 1682 he removed to
See also: Paris, but in 1695 was back again in London, where he remained until the See also: time of his See also: death
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His portrait by See also: Mignard is in the museum at See also: Geneva, and another in enamel by himself in the collection of the See also: earl of Dartrey, who also owns two of his wife, Madeleine Bordier, whom he married in 1683
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Another portrait believed to represent him is in the collection of Mr Pierpont See also: Morgan
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PETITS-CHEVAUX (Fr. for " little horses" ), a gambling See also: game played with a See also: mechanical See also: device consisting of a See also: board perforated with a number of concentric circular slits, in which revolve, each independently on its own See also: axis, figures of jockeys on horseback, distinguished by numbers or See also: colours
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The bystanders having staked their See also: money according to their choice on a board marked in divisions for this purpose, the horses are started revolving rapidly together by means of mechanism attached to the board, and the See also: horse which stops nearest a marked See also: goal wins, every player who has staked on that horse receiving so many times his stake
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Figures of railway trains and other See also: objects sometimes take the place of horses
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In See also: recent years there has been a tendency to supplant the petits chevaux at French resorts by the boule or See also: ball game, on the same principle of gambling; in this a ball is rolled on a See also: basin-shaped table so that it' may eventually See also: settle in one of a number of shallow cups, each marked with a figure
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