Boules Collection

French Boules Players
Four French peasants in sabots and a barefoot boy judge the skill of the players in a game on a bumpy grassy field. Date: early 20th century

Poster, Municipal Casino, Algiers, Algeria
Poster, Municipal Casino, Aletti, Algiers, Algeria

Five old men play a game of boules or bowls, circa 1800. Copied from Martinets Caricatures Parisiennes. Handcoloured lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill

Soldiers and old men playing boules or petanque on a field, Napoleonic era. After an illustration by Carle Vernet. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill

Men playing boules in the small town of Beaumont sur Oise
A group of men play a game of boules in the small town of Beaumont sur Oise, in the Val-d Oise department in μe-de-France in northern France

Three boys on a comic New Year card -- Manners and Customs of Ye English. Date: circa 1890s

Men playing boules, Paris. Date: 1966

Sport / Boules / Croatia
Istrian (Croatian) countryfolk playing boules in a garden protected by a statue of the Madonna Date: 1891

Boules, Paris
Spectators take a keen interest in the performance of the boules players in the Allee de l Observatoire, near the Luxembourg, Paris Date: 1860

Game of Boules / 1850
A game of boules in France Date: circa 1850

Sport / Boules
Le Joueur De Boules Date: 1850

Playing boules in Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
People playing boules in Government Gardens, Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand. The building in the background is the Blue Baths, an historic centre built in 1933 combining a health spa

Playing boules in Paris
A group of men, many in top hats, gather round to watch those playing boules on the Boulevard d Enfer in Paris

C18 Gaming Table
A GAMING TABLE, for a miniature form of boules, Louis XIV period

Boulfes, France
Two games of boules in animated progress on a piece of waste ground, France

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