All fun and games: France’s love of ‘Les Jeux’
23 March 2024 |
3:42 pm
With "les Jeux", or the Olympic Games, just around the corner, we discuss France's love of all sorts of other games, from board games, to video games, to betting... to marbles! We also dive into how the quintessentially French game of pétanque came to be.
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