The History
PÉTANQUE DESCENDS FROM one of the oldest games in human history, the archetype of which involves throwing or rolling an object as close as possible to a marker. Pétanque belongs to a family of ball games that developed in the Mediterranean, today called boules in French and bacci in Italian. In 1907 or 1910 [...]

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I AM WRITING this letter from the Isle aux Nattes, a tiny island a few hundred meters across the lagoon from the Isle Sainte Marie, which is off the Eastern Coast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The two islands are surrounded by a coral reef against which the waves break with a constant roar. [...]

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