Gambling [ Games & Sports ]
… of the eighteenth century, games like Ombre , Basset , Piquet , imported from European courts—respectively Spain, France and Italy—were well established in England. Quadrille , a variant of the three-player Spanish card game Ombre , … book, which was marked 'not paid, 20th January, 1816.' 19 Consequently, Brummell, owing thousands of pounds, fled to France to escape debtor’s prison. 18 . G. S. Street, ‘The Betting Book at Brooks's.’ The North American Review (vol. … complémentaires Cottegnies, Line and Louise Fang (eds.), ‘Playing, Gambling and Cheating in Early Modern England and France’, Études Épistémè , (n° 39, 2021). OpenEdition Journals, https://doi.org/10.4000/episteme.9414 Harris, Bob, …
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