Structure

The story about the invention

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Prevailing         A royal             Manoury              Manoury’s coffee house                     Real author of

story                touch               ↓                          ↓                ↓                 ↓                    the story

                                               Restif de la           Alphonse   Charles de  J.-J.

                                               Bretonne              Éverat        Calonne      Rousseau

 

The story is a nice fabrication

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Polish draughts          Boards for Polish draughts

in 1710                        in Holland long before 1725

 

The age of Polish draughts

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Expression                   Inventories       Relation with    Draughts on    The sense of

based on                      of draughts       decimal            100 squares    Polish

draughts (1550)            boards             system?            in 1617

 

The introduction of Polish draughts in France

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Grandsons of Louis XIV          Dutch migration to France            How ideas are

playing Polish draughts                                                              dissiminated

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                                               Richelieu, Mazarin and Colbert

 

About Manoury

Restif de la Bretonne

 

Manoury's coffee house

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Alphonse Éverat   Charles Alexandre   Danton      Jean-Jacques  Denis Diderot   Restif de la

                            de Calonne                               Rousseau                                Bretonne

                           

                            Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais