The balls were first made of clay, stone, then wood and finally steel. Our ancestors the Gauls will quickly adopt the boules games offered by their Roman neighbors, but the barbarian invasions will stop these simple pleasures for a long time, from the 3rd to the 10th century.
With the crusades, the people took every opportunity to play boules. The Renaissance will be the golden age of boules, a game requiring skill, technicality and self-control. Medicine will even underline the benefits, so much so that the nobility will end up prohibiting this game to the people, until the night of August 4, which sees the abolition of privileges and the passion for balls will very quickly regain its rights. It was at the end of the 18th century that the great history of boules began However, it was not until the first official competition in La Ciotat in that the word "petanque" was made official.
La Mariole was born! This practice has spread throughout France and beyond the borders by word of mouth. Several indoor petanque tournaments have emerged with popular enthusiasm.
We even know that the first all-terrain petanque tournament was organized by a certain Martin Antonietti in Canada in Montreal in And it was in that "La Mariole" as a real discipline was officially born with soft balls specially dedicated to this game and intended for the greatest number.
Read more. Renaissance With the crusades, the people took every opportunity to play boules. Who knows how far this story will go thanks to all of us?
