Boule Bretonne
Learn about This Traditonal Game
The most ancient game of bowls in France is practised in the western part of France, especially in Brittany. The game is also called boule en bois, because the boules in the past were made of hard wood: ashtree, elm, beech or box, but later tropical guaiacum. In the 1960’s synthetic materials entered into the game of boule bretonne and players use these new materials, which have contributed a lot to the development of the game. The synthetic boules do not wear out as much as wooden boules and they offer a range of diameters between 9 and 12 cm and a range of weights between 500 and 1000 grams and more. The wooden jack has a diameter of 55 mm.The game is normally played up to 12 points, but in friendly games 9, 10 or even 15 points would not be unusual. These friendly games can be played with teams that consist of 4, 5 |
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or 6 players. The official tournaments are played in either; singles (Pen eus Pen in the Breton language; each player having two or three boules), doubles (again each player has either two or three boules) or triples (each player has two boules).In the past the game was played anywhere: on half-hardened places, sunken roads, farmyards and even in the sand dunes or meadowlands. Nowadays this style of game has almost disappeared and the game is played in specially constructed boulodromes. The courts have a width between 3 and 5 m and a length between 16 and 20 m, which are usually marked by wooden borders. A player of the team that wins the toss throws the jack out at a distance of at least 12 m from the starting point. Like in most games of boules, there is a pointer (in the game of boule Information kindly donated by: www.petanque.org, See also: http://laboulebretonne.free.fr
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