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The names of most early solitaire games are French names as well, with the most well known being La Belle Lucie. When Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena in 1816 he used to play Patience to pass the time. Deported to the island lost in the ocean, knew what confinement felt like fully; he also knew how cards could solace one sentenced to solitude. During his exile at St Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte played patience in his spare time.
Some solitaire games were named after him, such as Napoleon at St. Helena, Napoleon's Square, etc.It is not known whether Napoleon invented any of these solitaire games or someone else around that same time period. Publications about solitaire began to appear in the late nineteenth century. Lady Adelaide Cadogan is believed to |
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have written the first book on the rules of rules of solitaire and patience games called "Illustrated Games of Patience" just after the Civil War (1870) containing 25 games. It is still reprinted occasionally even today. Other non english compilations on solitaire may have been written before that, however. Before this, otherwise there was no literat
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ure about solitaire, otherwise there was no literature about solitaire, not even in such books as Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamester (1674), Abbé Bellecour's Academie des Jeux (1674), and Bohn's Handbook of Games (1850), all of which are used as reference on card games.
In England "Cadogan" is a household word for solitaire in the same manner that "Hoyle" is for card games.Lady Cadogan's book spawned other collections by other writers such as E.D.Chaney, Annie B. Henshaw, Dick and Fitzgerald, H. E. Jones (a.k.a. Cavendish), Angelo Lewis (a.k.a. Professor Hoffman), Basil Dalton, and Ernest Bergholt. E.D. Chaney wrote a book on solitaire games called "Patience" and Annie B. Henshaw wrote a book with an interesting title "Amusements for Invalids". |
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Several years later Dick and Fitzgerald in New York published "Dick's Games of Patience" in 1883, followed by a second edition that was published in 1898.
Author, Henry Jones, wrote a fairly reliable book on solitaire called "Patience Games". |
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