The first major publicity about the divinatory use of the tarot came from a French occultist named Alliette under the pseudonym "Etteilla" (his name to the contrary), who acted as a fortuneteller and fortune-teller shortly after the French Revolution. Etteilla designed the first esoteric deck, adding astrological attributes and "Egyptian" motifs to various cards, altered elements of the Tarot of Marseilles, and including texts with divinatory meanings written on the cards. Later Mademoiselle Mar