Thumbnail-gallery of the book-covers
To make the book-database a bit more friendly to those that are not avid petanque-books readers, we have a gallery of the book-covers Full story
About the book-database
Jac Verheul, chief editor of the Dutch magazine petanQue, has produced a database of books on petanque and other games of boules. More than 300 titles, dating as far back as 1854, are included which we believe is the largest collection of books on all types of jeu de boules on the Web.
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Top rated petanque postcards from our collection:
Dowload the entire database
If you are interested in getting a copy yourself you may dowload the full book-database in html-format .Full story
An entire book online.
Aimé Coussin was a former bookseller who lived in Paris at the end of the 19th century. He was a passionate boule player for more than twenty years. But he was very annoyed when he played at other places than the place of his own club, because the others players played in a different way he was used to. Each time, he wrote in his document, he had to learn the game completely from scratch again. That is why he decided to write some rules, in order that all players, wherever they would play, should play the game of boules in the same way. We have the full text online here at petanque.org!Full story
LATEST NEWS
Postcard-collection redesigned!
We have done some redesigning here, and things are starting to look a bit more like 2013. The last change was back in 2005, and that was our 5th redesign. So here we are in the middle of our 6th change since 1996.
Petanque-app for android users
FInally there is a petanque-app for the android-users out there. And it is free. The perfect xmas-present perhaps?
Petanque 600 meters underground!
Get petanque-postcards in your twitter stream!
We have set up a system that will publish 2 new postcards to twitter every day from petanque.org. It will not work forever of course, in only 2,5 years we will start with re-runs of cards we have already previously published on Twitter . We do have a lot of petanque-postcards here.
Have you looked at the postcards?
We have a very nice collection of postcards here on petanque.org, and all of them are about petanque of course. Currently we have more than 1750 postcards available for your enjoyment.
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