Mark, I'll read it in more detail later. Nice article; thanks. I spot at least one error in it (maybe mistyping). He says::
Everyone placed bets directly on the 13 squares. You bet a number either to win or lose. Then the dealer would draw two cards. The first card was placed beside the box and was declared the losing card. The second card was left exposed in the box and declared the winner. So if the two cards were, say, a "2" and a Jack, then all bets on the 2 to lose would be paid, and all bets on the Jack to win would be paid. Both bets paid even money. All other bets would be wiped off the table.

He is wrong when he says "All other bets would be wiped off the table." In it's simplest form, if a deal results in, say, a jack to win and a Queen to lose, the house pays on the Jack and takes the Queen bets. All the other bets are "pushes" -- the chips stay there for the next 2 cards, or the players could pull the bets. (You could bet "to lose," but still only the bets on that card would be affected.)

Here is one web page on faro:
http://www.lahacal.org/gentleman/faro.html

Robert