France saw the founding of the Académie française (1635) and the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1663); In England, the formation of the Royal Society (1660), the earliest known Masonic lodges, and the earliest schools for girls were varying expressions of this same trend.
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With the introduction of the new academy, the houses were renamed after initial investors Martin Landau and Rocco Forte
listing both Primero and Primefisto, and the same occurs in a list of card games in Richard Brome's "The New Academy".