hist-games: Gargantua's games.

[Deboramarzec at aol.com]

In Francois Rabelais' 1534 book, Gargantua he lists about a hundred games  
that the giant plays after dinner.
Has anyone/does anyone know of someone who has broken down the list into  
card games, board games, dice games etc? (I think I saw a reference to the list  
in a David Parlett book but didn't make a note of it at the time). Also it 
seems  that many of the games could be of the type we now associate with 
children's  'playgrounds'. And just how many of the games fall into the 'unknown'  
category?
 
Thanks.
 
Debora.



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