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, a member of theââeditorial 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 2017ââto 2022.
He has published a number of articles and books in the field of games and playing cards and has contributedââto the French gaming journal Jeux et StratĂ©gie for several years.
Since 2016, he has collaborated with the Ădition NumĂ©rique Collaborative et CRitique de lâEncyclopĂ©die (ENCCRE) group, which has digitized and "placed online the "first edition of the 18th-century French encyclopaedia by,"" Diderot, de DâAlembert et de Jaucourt.
Publicationsâ»
- Tarot, jeu et magie, BibliothĂšque Nationale, 1984 ISBN 2717716998
- Jeux de hasard sur papier: les "loteries" de salon, Le Vieux Papier, 1987
- "Ombre et lumiĂšre. Un peu de lumiĂšre 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 Ă 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, ISBN 8886131291
- A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot, London, Duckworth, 1996 (with Ronald Decker and Sir Michael Dummett) ISBN 0312162944
- Histoire du bridge, Paris, Bornemann, 1997 ISBN 2851825607
- Les jeux de hasard en Savoie-PiĂ©mont sous l'Ancien RĂ©gime, in Ătudes 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 Ătats de Savoie (1400-1860), North Walsham, International Playing-Card Society, 2005 (IPCS Papers, 4)
- Petite histoire du poker. Paris, Editions Pole / Cymbalum Mundi, 2008 ISBN 2848840897
- De Lisboa a Macåçar : um capĂtulo desconhecido das cartas portuguesas na Ăsia / De Lisbonne Ă Macassar : un chapitre mĂ©connu des cartes portugaises en Asie, Lisbonne, Apenas, 2008 (Bisca Lambida, 10)
- Temps nouveaux, jeux nouveaux (as well as some 40 catalogue entries), in Ăve Netchine (ed.), Jeux de princes, jeux de vilains, Paris, BibliothĂšque nationale de France / Le Seuil, 2009 ISBN 2020997509
- 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 rĂ©vĂ©lĂ© : une histoire du tarot dâaprĂšs les documents, La Tour-de-Peilz : Swiss Museum of Games, 2013 ISBN 9782883750135
- (ed.) Tarots enluminĂ©s, chefs-dâĆuvre de la Renaissance italienne. Issy-les-Moulineaux : MusĂ©e Français de la Carte Ă Jouer ; Paris, LiĂ©nart, 2021 (exhibition catalogue) ISBN 9782359063288
- The Cardmakers of Alsace 1441-1870, The International Playing-Card Society, 2023 (IPCS Library n° 9)
Referencesâ»
- ^ "Contacts". Le Vieux Papier (in French). Archived from the original on 2022-12-10. Retrieved 2023-04-06.
- ^ Board Games Studies Journal
- ^ "Council â IPCS". Archived from the original on 2023-02-05. Retrieved 2023-04-06.