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Thierry Depaulis

b. 1949

French historian

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Born 1949. Thierry Depaulis is a French historian.

Thierry Depaulis (born 1949) is a French independent historian of games and especially of playing cards, card games, and board games. He is President of the association Le Vieux Papier, a member of the editorial board of the International Board Game Studies Association, and a member of the board of directors of the foundation of the Swiss Museum of Games. He was President of the International Playing-Card Society from 2017 to 2022.

He has published a number of articles and books in the field of games and playing cards and has contributed to the French gaming journal for several years.

Since 2016, he has collaborated with the Édition Numérique Collaborative et CRitique de l’Encyclopédie (ENCCRE) group, which has digitized and placed online the first edition of the 18th-century French encyclopaedia by Diderot, de D’Alembert et de Jaucourt.

Publications Tarot, jeu et magie, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1984 Jeux de hasard sur papier: les "loteries" de salon, Le Vieux Papier, 1987 "Ombre et lumière. Un peu de lumière sur l'hombre", in The Playing-Card, XV-4, XVI-1, XVI-2, 1987 Les cartes de la Révolution: cartes à jouer et propagande (catalogue d'exposition), Issy-les-Moulineaux, Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer, 1989 Les cartes à jouer au "portrait de Paris" avant 1701, Le Vieux Papier, 1991 Les loix du jeu : bibliographie de la littérature technique de jeux de cartes en français avant 1800. Suivie d'un supplément couvrant les années 1800-1850, Paris, Cymbalum Mundi, 1994 'Storia dei tarocchi liguri-piemontesi', dans Antichi tarocchi liguri-piemontesi, with Giordano Berti and Marisa Chiesa, Torino, 1995, A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot, London, Duckworth, 1996 (with Ronald Decker and Sir Michael Dummett) Histoire du bridge, Paris, Bornemann, 1997 Les jeux de hasard en Savoie-Piémont sous l'Ancien Régime, in Études Savoisiennes, 4, 1995 Inca dice and board games, dans Board Games Studies, 1, 1998 Le livre du jeu de dames, Paris, Bornemann, 1999 (with Philippe Jeanneret) La plus ancienne représentation datée de joueurs de dames (1492), in Board Game Studies, 7, 2004 (with Jean Simonata) Cartes et cartiers dans les anciens États de Savoie (1400-1860), North Walsham, International Playing-Card Society, 2005 (IPCS Papers, 4) Petite histoire du poker. Paris, Editions Pole / Cymbalum Mundi, 2008 De Lisboa a Macáçar : um capítulo desconhecido das cartas portuguesas na Ásia / De Lisbonne à Macassar : un chapitre méconnu des cartes portugaises en Asie, Lisbonne, Apenas, 2008 (Bisca Lambida, 10) Temps nouveaux, jeux nouveaux (as well as some 40 catalogue entries), in Ève Netchine (ed.), Jeux de princes, jeux de vilains, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France / Le Seuil, 2009 Explaining the Tarot : two Italian Renaissance essays on the meaning of the Tarot pack (with Ross Caldwell and Marco Ponzi), Oxford : Maproom, 2010 Le Tarot révélé : une histoire du tarot d’après les documents, La Tour-de-Peilz : Swiss Museum of Games, 2013 (ed.) Tarots enluminés, chefs-d’œuvre de la Renaissance italienne. Issy-les-Moulineaux : Musée Français de la Carte à Jouer; Paris, Liénart, 2021 (exhibition catalogue) The Cardmakers of Alsace 1441-1870, The International Playing-Card Society, 2023 (IPCS Library n° 9)

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