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Le Monde primitif

Antoine Court de Gébelin · nine volumes, 1773–1782; the Tarot essay in volume VIII, 1781

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In the chronology, in Antoine Court de Gébelin's account.

Volume VIII contains the famous Tarot essay asserting an Egyptian origin and a 'Book of Thoth'.

Cited for 6 sourced claims here, among them correspondences of .