I came across this map this map of Paris by Jouvin de Rochefort, dated 1672 which clearly shows the area that where the Noblet says it's from as just farmland. We know that the Noblet was made in the the Faubour Saint-Germain district of Paris because it says so on the deck. But I think the assumed ...

I may be off base about this, but I think it was Waite who popularized them more broadly and he did so because they were a substitute for elemental dignities, which he didn't want to talk about lest he violate his Golden Dawn oaths. As I said, that might be wildly wrong. ... EDIT: And since TdM is ...