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Article: History is in cards at new museum
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- March 23, 1986
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CINCINNATI People have been playing cards for some 600 years, but it
hasn't always been easy, according to Margery B. Griffith, curator of
the newly opened Playing Card Museum here.
The first recorded mention of playing cards in history, Griffith
says, is a listing in the treasury accounts of King Charles VI of
France for the year 1392 of 56 sols paid to Jacquemin Gringonneur, an
artist, for designing three decks of gilt-ornamented cards.
Then, five years later, in 1397, she related, the chief
magistrate of Paris issued an ordinance banning card playing, as well
as some other games, "excepting only on holidays."
The early popularity of card playing and the recurrent
proscriptions on ...