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In 1973, the French Tarot Federation (Fédération Française de Tarot) was formed and, by the late 20th century, Tarot had become the second-most popular card game in France, only trailing Belote. [7] Part of the reason why French Tarot persisted is the fact that the rules have been very consistent wherever the game is played. [9]
Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla) at his work table, from the Cours théorique et pratique du livre de Thot (1790).. Etteilla, the pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Alliette (1 March 1738 – 12 December 1791), was the French occultist and tarot-researcher, who was the first to develop an interpretation concept for the tarot cards and made a significant contribution to the esoteric development of the ...
The tarot deck contains a fifth suit, known in gaming as the atouts or honours, which serves as a permanent trump suit in games played with the tarot deck. The suit consists of twenty-two cards, including a Fool which serves as the highest trump (in Central Europe) or excuses the players from following suit elsewhere. [10]
Tarot (/ ˈ t ær oʊ /, first known as trionfi and later as tarocchi or tarocks) is a pack of playing cards, used from at least the mid-15th century in various parts of Europe to play card games such as Tarocchini.
The name Tarot de Marseille is not of particularly ancient vintage; it was coined as late as 1856 by the French card historian Romain Merlin, and was popularized by French cartomancers Eliphas Levi, Gérard Encausse, and Paul Marteau who used this collective name to refer to a variety of closely related designs that were being made in the city of Marseilles in the south of France, a city that ...
Tarot games are card games played with tarot packs designed for card play and which have a permanent trump suit alongside the usual four card suits. The games and packs which English-speakers call by the French name tarot are called tarocchi in the original Italian, Tarock in German and similar words in other languages.
Thierry Depaulis (born 1949) is an independent historian of games and especially of playing cards, card games, and board games.He is President of the association Le Vieux Papier, [1] a member of the editorial board of the International Board Game Studies Association, [2] and a member of the board of directors of the foundation of the Swiss Museum of Games.
After the death of Baptiste-Paul Grimaud in 1899, his nephews succeeded him: they participated in the edition of Tarot de Marseille, a card pack used both for card games and cartomancy. [ 1 ] In 1962, Jean-Marie Simon bought Grimaud to become the number one playing card manufacturer in France by founding the company France Cartes, [ 1 ] which ...