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France - City and Island games

Presentation:
version 2000

Presentatie:
versie 2000.

 

  Number of versions: 57

 
Edition:  June 17, 2007      

A.  The first publisher in France to publish City and Island games  was:  

TILSIT Éditions
8, place Marcel Rebuffat
91 140 - VILLEJUST
France
website: www.tilsit.fr

Their design of the games was very striking and different from the regular standard editions. In particular their Island games are interesting because these islands have in fact far too few residents to profitably issue a game. But since those islands are considered to be French Departments and therefore are part of France these editions were also sold in France. Unfortunately this company made only 5 editions in the period between 1998 and 2000.

All TILSIT issues are published under the slogan (Paris/The Metropolis has no more monopoly over Monopoly)

Paris/La Métropole n'a plus le "monopole" du

This is of course because the streets of the French standard edition are of the metropolis Paris.

On the lid of these editions is always a brief sketch instead of a picture of the game board. The bottom of each box shows the Quizz MONOPOLY, consisting of 8 questions. Most questions relate to the edition in question. The solutions are given underneath, upside down.
The flanks of the high lid show parts of the gameboard in question, while the flanks of the innerbox always show illustrations of local landmarks.

The Rules are printed on solid paper in a distinguised purple grey color.

The game board's back is always black. The back side of the  Chance- and Caisse de Communauté cards vary with each game, the texts however are those of the standard edition adapted to the spaces of the present game. The insert is of solid plastic and has besides 7 holes for the banknotes another 4 deep holes for the attributes. 
The 10 gilded tokens are the well-known car - hat - wheel-barrow - rider-on-horse - dog - iron - boat - shoe - thimble and canon. 
The banknotes are in accordance with the modern issue with almost unreadable mention "© 1996 Tonka Corporation" and having the ref.number 1004535 OOA. 
The green houses and red hotels are of wood. Also both red dice are of wood.

The prices of all of these editions were Ffr 300 (US$ 41.-) in June 2000.

 

 

LYON, the first French city game.lEdition: Édition de Lyon, No. Réf. 2981001
Publisher: TILSIT Éditions - Villejust - 1998
Dimensions of the box: 26.7 x 26.7 x 8.6 cm
The game:
This is the first Monopoly edition issued by TILSIT.
The space where with the numbered editions the number is mentioned the frame now shows "Édition 2000". The fold of the game board is not reinforced at the back, because of what this fold will become plain after a few times using the board.

The back of the very beautifully illustrated with scenes of Rich Uncle Pennybags, brown grey Chance cards show a picture of a large building (townhall?).  The Community Chest cards have a  blue picture of a townscape with over that a dark blue treasure chest.

The streets and stations of Lyon are from Départ:

Boulevard des États-Unis

Rue des Capucins

Gare de Lyon Part-Dieu

Rue Marrietton

Avenue Tony Garnier

Avenue Berthelot

En Prison

Rue Saint Jean

Compagnie de distribution d'électricité

Avenue Jean Jaurès

Cours de la Liberté

Gare de Perrache

Rue Garibaldi

Cours Lafayette

Rue de Brest

Parc Gratuit

Place Bellecour

Rue Auguste Comte

Rue Victor Hugo

Gare des Brotteaux

Boulevard des Brotteaux

Avenue du Maréchal de Saxe

Compagnie de distribution des eaux

Boulevard de la Croix Rousse

Allez en Prison

Rue du Président E.Herriot

Avenue Foch

Cours Vitton

Gare de Satolas

Rue de la République

Boulevard des Belges

The spaces in the middle of each side are here: Stations of Lyon.

 

 

Guadeloupe, an Island in the Caribbean Sea.Edition: Édition Guadeloupe, No. Réf. .2990601
Publisher: TILSIT Éditions - Villejust  - 1999
Dimensions of the box: 26.7 x 26.7 x 8.6 cm
The game:
The bottom of the box of this edition of the French island in the Caribbean Sea says:
* Numbered edition of a limited issue of 10,000 copies.
* With Rules for a short game.
* Houses and hotels of wood.
* Gilded metal tokens.

The number of the game is printed on the gameboard. The fold of the board is thoroughly reinforced.
The back of the yellowl/ red Chance cards show 2 flowers, while a fox (?) is sitting aside the moneybag in the blue treasure chest of the Community Chest cards.

The capital of this island is Pointe-à-Pitre and of course this game has some streets of this city. 
The properties are from
Départ:

Sainte-Rose: Sofaïa

La Désirade: Petite-Terre

Gourbeyre: Marina de Rivière-Sens

Pointe-Noire: Plage de Petite Anse

Lamentin: Ravine Chaude

Route de la Traversée

En Prison

Le Moule: Baie du Moule

Compagnie de distribution d'électricité

Marie-Galante: Habitation Murat

Anse-Bertrand: Pointe de la Vigie

Marina du Gosier

Sainte-Anne: Plage de la Caravelle

Capesterre: Allée Dumanoir

Les Saintes: Baie des Saintes

Parc Gratuit

Basse-Terre: Champ d'Arbaud

Bouillante: Plage de Malendure

Pointe-à-Pitre: Place du Marché aux Épices

Marina de Saint-Martin

Jarry: Boulevard de Houelbourg

Basse-Terre: Boulevard Maritime

Compagnie de distribution des eaux

Deshaies: Pointe Batterie

Allez en Prison

Petit-Bourg: Hauteurs de Vernou

Pointe-à-Pitre: Rue Frébault

Saint-Claude: Plateau de la Soufrière

Marina de Saint-Barthélémy

Hauteurs de Saint-François

Gosier: Pointe de la Verdure

The spaces in the middle of each side are here therefore: Marinas.
Presumably Route de la Traversée and Hauteurs de Saint-François (the only spaces without the mention of a town) are a main tourist route and an upland.

 

 

Martinique, an Island in the Caribbean Sea.Edition: Édition Martinique, No. Réf. 2990602
Publisher: TILSIT Éditions - Villejust -1999
Dimensions of the box: 26.7 x 26.7 x 8.6 cm
The game:
The bottom of the box of this edition of the French island in the Caribbean Sea says:
* Numbered edition of a limited issue of 10,000 copies.
* With Rules for a short game.
* Houses and hotels of wood.
* Gilded metal tokens.

The number of the game is printed on the gameboard. The fold of the board is thoroughly reinforced.
The back of the yellowl/ red Chance cards show a drawn sailing boat, while a beautiful bird is sitting on the rim of the blue treasure chest of the Community Chest cards.

The capital of this island is Fort-de-France and of course this game also has some streets of this city. 
The properties are from
Départ:

Route du Rhum  

Le Precheur: Anse Couleuvre

Marina du François

Fort-de-France: Place de la Savane

Route de la Trace

Pitons du Carbet

En Prison

Trace des Jésuites

Compagnie de distribution d'électricité

Fort-de-France: Fort Saint-Louis

Saint-Joseph: Coeur Bouliqui

Marina de Fort-de-France

Montagne Vauclin

Ajoupa Bouillon: Gorges de la Falaise

Tartane: Chateau Dubuc

Parc Gratuit

Sainte-Anne: Cap Chevalier

Trois Ilets: Domaine de la Pagerie

Route des Anses

Marina des Trois Ilets

La Montagne Pelée

Le François: Ilet Oscar

Compagnie de distribution des eaux

Rade de Saint-Pierre

Allez en Prison

Fort-de-France: Quai de Suffren

Rocher du Diamant

Les Anses d'Arlets: Grande Anse

Marina du Marin

Trois Ilets: Pointe du Bout

Sainte-Anne: Les Salines

The spaces in the middle of each side are here therefore: Marinas.
Presumably those properties without the name of a town are important tourist places or routes of the islands.

 

 

Many Cities along the Côte d'Azur.Edition: Édition Côte d'Azur, No. Réf.  2000201
Publisher: TILSIT Éditions - Villejust - 2000
Dimensions of the box: 26.7 x 26.7 x 8.6 cm
The game:
The bottom of the box says:
* Official edition on the occasion of the International Games Festival in Cannes.
* Numbered edition of a limited issue.
(
However, the number is not stated)
* Houses and hotels are of wood.
* Gilded metal tokens.

The color of the box is of course  … azure blue. The number of the game is printed on the gameboard. 
The fold of the gameboard is not reinforced.
The back side of both the pink red Chance cards and those of the blue Community Chest cards show drawn buildings as they also appear at the flanks of the innerbox.

The properties are from Départ of the following cities along the French Rivièra:

La Ciotat: Allée Lumière

Cavalaire-sur-Mer: Avenue des Alliés

Casino de Cassis

Cagnes-Sur-Mer: Boulevard du Maréchal Juin

Sanary-sur-Mer: Avenue Portissol

Bandol: Quai Général de Gaulle

En Prison

Bormes-les-Mimosas: Rue Carnot

Compagnie de distribution d'électricité

Hyères: Avenue Gambetta

Le Lavandou: Avenue Delattre de Tassigny

Casino de Monaco

Saint-Paul-de-Vence: Place du Jeu de Boule

Toulon: Boulevard de Strasbourg

Juan-les-Pins: Boulevard Charles Guillaumont

Parc Gratuit

Menton: Promenade du Soleil

Antibes: Boulevard du Cap

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat: Pointe Sainte-Hospice

Casino de Nice

Sainte-Maxime: Promenade Simone Lorière

Compagnie de distribution des eaux

Cassis: Quai des Beaux

Saint-Raphaël: Rue Félix Martin

Allez en Prison

Saint-Tropez: Quai de Suffren

Grasse: Boulevard J-H. Fragonard

Principauté de Monaco: Boulevard des Moulins

Casino de Cannes

Cannes: La Croisette

Nice: Promenade des Anglais

The spaces in the middle of each side are here of course: Casino's.

 

 

French isle Réunion.Edition: Édition Réunion, No. Réf. 2000604   
Publisher: TILSIT Éditions - Villejust - July 2000
Dimensions of the box: 26.7 x 26.7 x 8.6 cm
The game:

The bottom of the box of this edition of the French island in the Indian Ocean says:
* Numbered edition of a limited issue, original edition.
* Houses and hotels of wood.
* Gilded metal tokens.
* With Rules for a short game.
The number of the game is printed on the game board. My set has Nº 002265. The fold of the board is thoroughly reinforced.
The green/red backed Chance cards show a yellow flower (Frangipani?), while an elegant sea gull hovers over the blue treasure chest of the Community Chest cards. The text side of these cards show funny pictures of Uncle Pennybags on a nice hand drawn background.
The very distinguished looking property deeds have equally hand drawn pictures on the background.

The properties are from Départ of various places of this little island :

Bras-Panon: Rivière des Roches

Sainte-Suzanne: Rue Pierre Mendès France

La Possession

Saint-Philippe: Rue Leconte Delisle

La Plaine-des-Palmistes: Rue de la République

La Plaine des Cafres: Route du Volcan

En Prison

Trois-Bassins: Rue du Général de Gaulle

Compagnie de distribution d'électricité

Sainte-Marie: Route de Gillot

Saint-Benoit: Rue Georges Pompidou

Aéroport de Saint-Pierre

Saint-Louis: Rue du docteur Raymond Vergès

Saint-André: Avenue Bourbon

Saint-Joseph: Rue Raphaël Babet

Parc Gratuit

Les Avirons: Le Tévelave

Le Port: Rue François de Mahy

Saint-Leu: Rue du Général Lambert

Le Port

Saint-Paul: Rue du Commerce

Compagnie de distribution des eaux

Le Tampon: Rue Hubert Delisle

L'Étang-Sale-les-Bains: Avenue Octave Bénard

Allez en Prison

La Saline-les-Bains: Route du trou d'eau 

Boucan-Canot: Rue de Boucan-Canot

Saint-Gilles-Les-Bains: Forum

Aéroport de Roland Garros

Saint-Pierre: Rue des bons enfants

Daint-Denis: Rue du Maréchal Leclerc

The spaces in the middle of each side are here: Ports and aéroports.

 


B. As from 2000 the internationally operating company Winning Moves proceeded making all kinds of City-, Regional- and Promotional editions from their French address:

Winning Moves France
16, rue de Fontenay 
94 300 - VINCENNES

France
website: www.winningmoves.fr

The first Winning Moves editions appeared in Great Britain, later on followed by many other European countries.
They are all socalled "Authorized Opoly Games", i.a. they are issued under the approval of and in cooperation with Hasbro. Like with all City Games a part of the profit comes from local companies and institutions sponsoring the spaces. The prices of the streets and other properties are always the same as those of the standard edition.

All editions are, like in other countries,  made according to the same pattern, viz.:

The colorfull lid always shows under the Monopoly bar a composition of pictures of landmarks of the city, with in perspective mid-under the first and last spaces at the left and the right of Départ
In the lower right corner are always 6 of 10 standard tokens, i.e. car - boat - thimble - canon - wheelbarrow and rider-on-horse. The other tokens of the set are dog - hat - shoe and iron.
The back of all game boards is purple.
The Banker's tray is a square tray of red plastic on top of which the double folded game board is placed. 
One hole contains a small, transparant case, presumably  for the houses and hotels.
A second, slightly higher tray of green plastic has 7 slots to store the banknotes.
The money consists of banknotes of a local well-known bank.
Each set is supplied with a socalled property pouch. According to Winning Moves it is to store the houses and hotels.
All well finished green plastic houses and red plastic hotels have overhanging roofs and an excentrically placed chimney.
The dice are white and have black pips.
Page 16 of the Rules always show pictures of all properties of the edition concerned.

 

City games:

Angers.Edition: Angers, without Réf.
Publisher: Winning Moves France/Hasbro - ±2000
Dimensions of the box: 40 x 5 x 27 cm
The game:
This may be well the first Winning Moves issue in France.

The story on the bottom of the box says:

"The city originally being the capital of the Gallic tribe of the Andes was then called "Cité des Andécaves" later got the name Juliomagus ("Julius César's market). In turn the Foulques, the Plantagenoîts, the Capétiens and finally the Valois ruled over the city.
Angers met a number of noble persons of the French history, such as the Plantagenoîts, King René, François Rabelais and Joachim du Bellay. In his castle the famous gobelin of the Revelation hangs.
Today Angers distinguishes by its wealth to heritages as well as its economic and cultural dynamics. The presence of large industrial enterprises as well as a considerable number of smaller businesses give the city a perspective of an industrial town. Angers' economy is based on 5 pillars of activities, such as electronics/computer sience, components for the car industry, insurance, health care and the vegetable sector. The 2 universities and academies ensure a good balance between education and economy. Because Paris is only an hour and a half away by T.G.V. and thanks to the new business airport it is linked to European metropolises Angers regularly is amongst the top places of the winners of the press for high standard of living and industrial dynamics.

Finally Angers enjoys world reputation as being the access to the Loire valley, recently certified by Unesco as a world inheritance of humanity."

 

Amiens.Edition: Amiens, Réf. 0030
Publisher: Winning Moves France/Hasbro - ±2004
Dimensions of the box: 40 x 5 x 27 cm
The game:
The story on the bottom of the box says:

"Town of Jules Verne, Amiens is recognized for its cathedral, the "Parthénon du gothique", taken in the row of the fifty most important masterpieces of mankind.
Also celebrated for its market gardens, true floating gardens, Amiens is crossed by many channels in its picturesque district of Saint-Leu. 
Capital city of the Somme and the Picardy area, the city extends on several arms from the Somme and its agglomeration adds up to 220.000 inhabitants. Taking advantage of a rich agricultural area, Amiens knew to compensate for the collapse of textile industry while becoming a turntable of the supply for the automobile industry.
It commemorated with ostentation in March 2002 the peace treaty, which put an end to the war between France and the other great European powers.
With the university of Picardy Jules Verne, it shows a real dynamism."



                                                                                                  Furthermore next City editions have been issued:

±2000

2001

±2003

±2004

±2005

2006

Nîmes, no Réf.

Nice, Réf.0006

Lyon, Réf.0017 Metz, Réf.0026 Saint-Etienne, Réf.0033 Compiègne, Réf.0044
Rennes, Réf.0008 Tours, Réf.0011 Le Havre, Réf.0018 Caen, Réf.0027 Beauvais, Réf.0036 Troyes, Réf.0045
Montpellier, Réf.0010 Bordeaux, Réf.0012 Orléans, Réf.0023 Strasbourg, Réf.0029 Chamonix, Réf.0037 Pau, Réf.0046
Nantes, Réf.0015 Lile, Réf.0013 Brest, Réf.0025 Reims, Réf.0031 Besançon, Réf.0039 Valenciennes, Réf.0047
  Marseille, Réf.0014   Toulon, Réf.0032 Avignon, Réf.0041 Bourges, Réf.0048
  Toulouse, Réf.0016     Dunkerque, Réf.0042  
        Versailles, Réf.0043  

 

 

 Regional games:

 

Alsace.Edition: Alsace, Réf.0102
Publisher: Winning Moves France/Hasbro - ±2003
Dimensions of the box: 40 x 5 x 27 cm
The game:
The story on the bottom of the box says:

"Alsace is the heiress of a fertile history which ensured it an international vocation since always : union of the 10 imperial cities, the Thirty Years war, industrial revolution, various influences; the past can be recognized in the cities and villages with the medieval streets with half-timbered houses and windows flowered, churches and fountains on the places.
And quite naturally tourism became one of the major assets of the area: cathedrals, castles, museums of all kinds, residences along the rivers, traditional storks and rich vineyards along a road of 170 km.
Its gastronomy charms the traveller as well as the Alsatians. Central area of Europe, it shelters the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
A long industrial tradition, research centers and a powerful university, which support a strong cultural activity of high behaviour, ensure an economic place of choice in "the beautiful province"."

 

 

Camargue.Edition: Camargue, Réf. 0117
Publisher: Winning Moves France/Hasbro - ±2005
Dimensions of the box: 40 x 5 x 27 cm
The game:
The story on the bottom of the box says:

"The Camargue is a vast plain, enclosed by the two arms of the Rhône and the Mediterranean Sea: the small Camargue in the west and Crau in the east. The ceaseless fight of the Rhône and the sea, combined with the action of man, constituted a mosaic of spots and landscapes. 
In the north agricultural activities developed: fields of cereals, asparaguses, vineyards and intensive rice growing as well.
The authentic, protected Camargue is situated in the south where marshes and ponds dominate. The protection of this nature reserve conditions the diversity and the geological balance of fauna (more than 300 listed species) and flora, as well as the essential pastures with the traditional breeding of the bull and the horse.
The Camargue, is also cities with their historical heritage, like Arles, of which the Roman vestiges still testify to its splended past, Aigues-Mortes, the city of Saint-Louis, Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-mer, capital of the Camargue, …
It is in this ground of contrasts that Van Gogh came to seek the light.
Animated by the "Fé di Biou", the Camargue people make you revive the ancestral habits of the protected culture and discover a tasty gastronomy."

 

Furthermore next Rergional editions have been issued:

2001

±2002/03

±2004/05

2006

Nord Pas de Calais, Réf.0101 Pays Basque, Réf.0105 Lorraine, Réf.0114 Gironde, Réf.0120
Bretagne, Réf.0103 Bassin d'Arcachon, Réf.0107 Haute Savoie, Réf.0115 Basse Normandie, Réf.0123
Corse, Réf.0104 Périgord, Réf.0113 Vendeé, Réf.0116 Haute Normandie, Réf.0124
      Touraine, Réf.0125
      Auvergne, Réf.0128
      Limousin, Réf.0129
      Picardie, Réf.0137

 

Thematic games:


First French thematic game.
Edition: Paris Saint-Germain, Réf. 0109
Publisher: Winning Moves France/Hasbro - ±2004
Dimensions of the box: 40 x 5 x 27 cm
The game:
The story on the bottom of the box says:

"The history of Paris Saint-Germain begins on August 12, 1970. The desire to have again a new grand club in Paris brought many investors together around the same project: the PSG. The new club of Paris joins to the first team of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the PSG begins in its first National Season (ex-Second Division). 

The results satisfy immediately to the appointment and the club reaches the first division by gaining the "National" championship in the season of 1970/71. However, it will last till the 1974/75 season and the arrival of Daniel Hechter, until the club really became a great success.

Afterwards the titles and seasons succeed each other rapidly, with victories as championships in 85/86 and 93/94, 6 times gain of the Coupe de France, 2 times the Coupe de la Ligue and once the Coupe d'Europe des Vainqueurs de Coupe (UEFA cup) in 1996.

Since its creation, the PSG became an actor impossible to circumvent within the French championship. The PSG is thus at the third place on the list of the best and became a club recognized in the whole world."

 

 

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