Thierry Depaulis (born 1949) is an independent historian of games and especially of

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s, and

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, President of the association ''Le Vieux Papier'', a member of the editorial board of the

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. 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 ''Jeux et Stratégie'' for several years. Since 2016, he has collaborated with the ENCCRE group.

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,

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, 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

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and Marisa Chiesa, Torino, 1995, * ''A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarot'', London, Duckworth, 1996 (with Ronald Decker and Sir

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) * ''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) * différents articles sur les divers aspects des jeux in l' ''Encyclopædia Universalis'', 1999 * 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 (ainsi qu'une quarantaine de notices, écrites ou coécrites), 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 :

, 2013

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