| Almost every French town or village has at least one place where people gather to
play boules. The game is especially popular in the south of the country. First a
small metal ball called a pétanque is thrown, and then the players throw bigger
metal balls to see who can come closest to hitting the pétanque. Because the
ground is usually uneven, the best way to do this is by throwing the ball high into the
air. Now someone has invented square boules so that even people who live in hilly towns
with no flat ground can play! |
