sentences:  The dealer had a number of privileges under the rules, including having the sole disposal of the first and last card; this gave him or her a significant edge.This was a truth so acknowledged in France that the king ordered, by public edict, that the privilege of a "tallière" (banker) should be allowed only to the "chief cadets" (sons of noblemen).His assumption was that whoever kept the bank must, in a very short time, acquire a considerable fortune.