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Tag Archives: Playing Cards
1629: The Most Trivial Disagreements
Such personal correspondence and diaries as survive suggest that social relations from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries tended to be cool, even unfriendly. The extraordinary amount of casual interpersonal physical and verbal violence, as recorded in legal and other … Continue reading →
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Tagged 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 1970's, 20th Century, Art, Backgammon, Belgium, Books, Games, Great Britain, Lawrence Stone, Painting, Playing Cards, Sociology, Theodoor Rombouts
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1793: Cards for Equality
Following the French Revolution and its toppling of the French monarchy, Urbain Jaume and Jean-Démosthène Dugourc conceived the idea of a new deck of playing cards that, like the revolutionaries, would toss out its “aristocracy” of Aces, Kings, … Continue reading →
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Tagged 18th Century, Civil Rights, France, French Revolution, Games, Jean-Démosthène Dugourc, Playing Cards, Revolution, Urbain Jaume
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