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Pétanque (French: ⓘ, locally in Provence [peˈtãᵑkə]; Occitan: petanca [peˈtaŋkɔ] ⓘ; Catalan: petanca [pəˈtaŋkə, peˈtaŋka]) is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports (along with raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, lawn bowls, and crown green bowling).
Boules (/ b uː l /, French pronunciation:), or jeu de boules, [1] is a collective name for a wide range of games similar to bowls and bocce in which the objective is to throw or roll heavy balls as closely as possible to a small target ball, called the jack. 'Boules' itself is a French loanword that usually refers to the game especially played ...
The French equivalent to the English meaning is "fard à joues"; 2) in Canadian football, a rouge is awarded when the ball is kicked into the end zone by any legal means, other than a successful field goal, and the receiving team does not return or kick the ball out of its end zone. séance
Bocce (/ ˈ b ɒ tʃ i / ⓘ, [1] [2] or / ˈ b ɒ tʃ eɪ /, [3] Italian:), sometimes anglicized as bocce ball, [4] bocci, [5] or boccie, [1] is a ball sport belonging to the boules family. Developed into its present form in Italy, it is closely related to English bowls and French pétanque, with a common ancestry from ancient games played in ...
The Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men [1]), or the Bal des Sauvages [2] (Ball of the Wild Men), was a masquerade ball [note 1] held on 28 January 1393 in Paris, France, at which King Charles VI had a dance performance with five members of the French nobility.
Jeu de paume in the 17th century.. Jeu de paume (UK: / ˌ ʒ ɜː d ə ˈ p oʊ m /, [1] French: [ʒø d(ə) pom]; originally spelled jeu de paulme; lit. ' palm game '), nowadays known as real tennis, (US) court tennis or (in France) courte paume, is a ball-and-court game that originated in France.
She adds that it was really the day before the ball that sparked some nervous energy. Prior to the event, Loppin de Montmort and her fellow ball-goers convened at 9:30 a.m. to test out hair and ...
Bal du moulin de la Galette (commonly known as Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) is an 1876 painting by French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces. [1]