Background
His father was a maître rôtisseur, a caterer, and his mother was a seed merchant.
His father was a maître rôtisseur, a caterer, and his mother was a seed merchant.
Etteilla published his ideas of the correspondences between the tarot, astrology, and the four classical elements and four humors, and was the first to issue a revised tarot deck specifically designed for occult purposes (1791).