Va banque

Vabanque is a redirect to this article. Further meanings of both spellings are listed under Va banque (disambiguation) .

Johann Baptist Raunacher (1729–1771): A game of Pharo at Eggenberg Palace near Graz

Va banque or Vabanque is a term from the gambling , more precisely, from the very popular in the 18th and 19th century maps games of chance Pharo . The French phrase Va banque! , German The bank counts! , means that a player places a stake in the amount of the current bank deposit (cf. the announcement Banco in Baccarat ).

Based on the game of chance, Vabanque generally describes a risky company in which you risk everything, hence the name Vabanque game .

The use of this term has become particularly famous in a traditional conversation between Hermann Göring and Adolf Hitler on the occasion of the British declaration of war in 1939. Göring advised Hitler: “We want to leave the vabanque game,” to which Hitler replied: “In my life I have always Played Vabanque. "

See also

Wiktionary: Vabanquespiel  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Henry Picker : Hitler's Table Talk . Ullstein TB 26509, quoted from Guido Knopp Hitler's Helfer I , page 107