Having been in a couple of long-running tabletop gaming groups, it's neat to see how many literary circles also turn out to be gaming groups. Mid-17th C. 'salon' novelists? Gaming group(s). De Scudéry even has a long documentary of play: wobbupalooza.neocities.org/1667
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A translation of the preface to the novel Mathilde by Madeleine de Scudéry, providing examples of 17th Century parlor games
