Word: biblioth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, the Bibliothèque Nationale (corresponds to the Library of Congress) limited admissions to 100 scholars at a time. Reason: capacity of the Bibliothèque's bombproof shelter...
...quoting from the memoirs of Barere and de Bachaumont, says that creps was one of the principal games played in the gambling houses of the Palais Royal in Paris in the latter part of the 18th Century. In 1818, long before craps was popular in the U. S., the Bibliothéque Historique referred to "one table of craps" as among the frivolities of the gambling houses of Paris...