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Bernard Boursicot, a Rare card
Bernard Boursicot is a French diplomat who was caught in a Chinese honeypot trap by Shi Pei Pu, a male Peking opera singer who performed female roles, whom Boursicot claimed he believed to be female.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 57
- DEF
- 36
- Power
- 93
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 340,000
Power 93 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- This espionage case became something of a cause célèbre in France in 1986, as Boursicot and Shi were brought to trial, owing to the nature of the unusual sexual subterfuge alleged.
- The case was again back under a public spotlight when a play loosely based on this affair, M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, premiered in 1988 and yet again as the film adaptation of the play directed by David Cronenberg was released in 1993.
- Periodic restagings of the play and television airings of the film based on it continue to spark interest in the espionage case at the heart of the fictional works of art.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bernard Boursicot article was read about 340,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 57 and blocks with 36: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get Bernard Boursicot
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Bernard Boursicot (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : French Government, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.