Le Nouveau Jeu de La Vie Humaine

Game of Life, detailIn the late 1770s, the Parisian publisher Jean-Baptiste Crépy issued Le Nouveau Jeu de La Vie Humaine. This table-game joined a thriving market for such amusements in eighteenth-century France. Exact date of publication contested; if you have information about the correct date, please email [email protected] with this information. Image: The New Game of Human Life, detail (1790, courtesy of collezione A. Seville. http://www.giochidelloca.it/images/h/humanlife0142a.jpg).

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Christopher Rovee, “The New Game of Human Life, 1790″

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1 Jan 1779

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