Thierry Depaulis (born 1949) is an independent historian of games and especially of
playing cards
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,
card game
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s, and
board game
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s. 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 ''Jeux et Stratégie'' 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
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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)
* 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)
References
External links
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20th-century French historians
Card game historians
Tabletop game writers
Writers from Bordeaux
1949 births
Living people
Card game book writers
Contract bridge writers