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Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… P, 2000), p. 228. To the aristocracy, gambling was, by tradition, an activity revolving around the royal court, authorised and regulated by the Groom Porter . 10 Under the direct authority of the monarch, he had his own gaming house. Homosociality provided an ideal environment for male sociability … 10 . In 1705, the ‘Groom Porter’ was given full power by Queen Anne “to supervise, regulate, and authorize (by and under the Rules, Conditions and Restrictions by the Law prescribed) all manner of Gaming within this …
Clubs | Duelling | Gaming | Gentleman | Horseracing | Suicide
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Gaming table [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]
… type of table was a prerequisite to play certain games: in a 1793 treatise on Faro and Rouge et Noir for instance the author, French exile and mathematician Abraham De Moivre, details what type of table should be used and how for each of … strongly evocative of the animalisation frequently associated with gaming. In an anonymous 1761 treatise on gaming the author concludes that: ‘Gaming’s a fiend with Harpy Claws and Eyes, Of Paper Substance, but prodigious Size: Which like …
Aristocracy | Domesticity | Furniture | Gambling | Gaming | Playing
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Salons [ Associational culture ]
… (ed.) Maurice Tourneux, vol.11 (Paris, 1879), p. 264. 11 . Elena Russo, Styles of Enlightenment: Taste, Politics, and Authorship in Eighteenth-Century France (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 2007), p. 63. The women and men whose salons …
Enlightenment | France | Gaming | Networks | Patronage
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