Forget the image of boules (or pétanque, as it is more properly known) as the game of old men in string vests. Suddenly, it's becoming the height of cool – and not just in France According to Martine ...

If you logged onto Google today, you probably saw that today's doodle is dedicated to celebrating the French game pétanque; but what exactly is it? Pétanque is a popular game from Southern France. It ...

The game looks familiar, but the name may generate puzzled looks. Larry and Lori Beth Creasy had never heard of petanque (pronounced pay-tonk) when they moved to St. Augustine from Miami six years ago ...

LAKE WORTH BEACH — Focused and fierce, Delray Beach resident Enzo Lepore tossed his pétanque boule and smiled. It landed super-close to the cochonnet, a small wooden target. A feeling of satisfaction ...

French elegance it isn’t, but this summer French boules are cool. More specifically petanque, a particularly un-athletic form of bowling usually associated with pastis-sozzled, flat-capped old men of ...

Pétanque - pronounced "pay-tank", sometimes called boules, is a game that can be enjoyed by all the family and socially with friends for fun or more competitively up to European and World Championship ...

On a shaded practice court in the sticky heat of rainy season in Bangkok, Ratchata Khamdee half-crouches, pauses and launches a petanque boule at the jack. Aged just 20, he is already a double world ...

Henry Samuel has been The Telegraph’s Paris Correspondent since 2007. His 2023 Sarkozy-Gaddafi trial coverage was cited in the European Parliament’s anti-corruption resolution and the French culture ...

Aged just 20, he is already a double world champion, the latest winner to come off Thailand's production line of top petanque players. Half a world away from its home in the squares of southern France ...