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    Antoine Court, who named himself Antoine Court de Gébelin (Nîmes, 25 January 1725 – Paris, 10 May 1784), was a Protestant pastor, born in Nîmes, who initiated...
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    Italian courts of the 15th century when it was invented. The occult significance began to emerge in the 18th century, when Antoine Court de Gébelin, a Swiss...
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    "Hierophant"  is due to Antoine Court de Gébelin and was an attempt to dechristianise the standard French tarot pack, the Tarot de Marseilles, out of a mistaken...
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    enriching the card's imagery. In the 18th century, figures like Antoine Court de Gébelin and Jean-Baptiste Alliette (Etteilla) reinterpreted tarot cards...
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  • occultism emerged in 19th-century France, among figures such as Antoine Court de Gébelin. It came to be associated with various French esoteric groups connected...
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    makes no acknowledgement of de Gébelin and, although he agrees with all his main conclusions, he also contradicts de Gébelin over such details as the meaning...
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    Stiles, then president of Yale College, believed them to be Hebrew. Antoine Court de Gébelin argues in Le Monde primitif ("The primeval World") that they commemorated...
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    Cultural Landscape". Antoine Court de Gébelin (2009), Histoire des troubles des Cévennes ou de la guerre des camisards sous le règne de Louis le Grand, reprint...
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    Triskaidekaphobia (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    represents Death, and is numbered 13 in several variants. In 1781, Antoine Court de Gébelin writes of this card's presence in the Tarot of Marseilles that...
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  • 2016. Schlegel 2008. Antoine Court de Gébelin (2009), Histoire des troubles des Cévennes ou de la guerre des camisards sous le règne de Louis le Grand, reprint...
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