Part 2: History of the tarot deck
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Court de Gebilin, Antonine. Du Jeu des Tarots, within Monde Primitif, analysé et comparé avec le monde moderne (The Primitive World, analyzed and compared with the modern world). Volume 8, Book 1: 365-410.
Summary
1507: Marseille is the center of tarot deck production
1600s: Order and iconography of the deck becomes standardized
1781: Antoine Court de Gabelin rewrites tarot card history—asserting incorrect influences:
“. . . I glanced at it [the World] & immediately understood the Allegory. Each person stops playing and comes to see this marvelous Card wherein I perceive what they have never seen. Each person shows me another: in a quarter hour the deck has been gone through, explained & declared Egyptian and such that it was not a trick of our imagination but the product of the deliberate associations and feelings of the deck with everything which one knew of Egyptian ideas.”