In the late 1770s, the Parisian publisher Jean-Baptiste Crépy issued Le Nouveau Jeu de La Vie Humaine. This table-game joined a thriving market for such amusements in eighteenth-century 
France. Exact date of publication contested; if you have information about the correct date, please email felluga@purdue.edu with this information. Image: The New Game of Human Life, detail (1790, courtesy of collezione A. Seville. http://www.giochidelloca.it/images/h/humanlife0142a.jpg).
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