![The Book of Thoth aka. The grand Etteila (1804)](https://tarotator.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Book-of-Thoth-01-640x198.jpg)
Tarot became quite popular – exoteric – in the last few hundreds of years, and we owe that to the French cartomancer and fortune teller Jean-Baptiste Alliette.
Jean-Baptiste was born to working-class parents in Paris in 1738 and worked as a seed merchant. Read more Architecture: Etteilla’s Major Arcana