France
From Monopoly
The beginning
Also in France Monopoly is started early, as you can see on this advertisment from the magazine L'ILLUSTRATION from Dec., 17th 1938.
The game was sold in game-, giftshops and departmentstores. The look is like the games of John Waddington, Leeds, UK. Also the Poundsign is inserted in the Monopolysignature.
This advertisment is from Dec. 17th., so the New Year is mentioned.
I'll try to translate the french to english:
More than a game - A passion.
Playing Monopoly, and you think it's midnight, but it's three in the morning!
The interest doesn't loose any second. It's the continous dance of buying, selling, the rents... and the banknotes!
The way of life of the great brookers without going away from your chair.
This game is not only an incomparable and again and again new pleasure, but also educational!
It conquered completely America, it fulfills England with passion, it travels triumphand around the world!
French version of the game that moves America.
Let your whole family and all of your friends to the happy turn of the year play MONOPOLY, the game of today.
Notes, small houses, hotel, properties of all kinds acquire, by the coincidence of the dice, whereby in addition change- and community cards completely encourage this great game.
It resembles the work of an financier on the stock exchange of the Wallstreet.
The very simple rules of this really new game can be learned in some minutes, and from the beginning you can realise the learned!
If you have a better translation, please let me know, because I'm not an native english speaker and the french translation is made with babelfish.
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