Everything about Football in France that you should know
I will use in the article the word soccer and Football. The reason is simply that most of my readers are from the USA. French people always loved Football and this is the reason why they created in Paris in 1904 the institution that manage…
Top 10 most popular sports in France
I decided to rank the ten most popular sports in France. I gather the numbers of membership on the official website in 2019 of every official sports federations and rounded the numbers. Just to give you an order, the French population is around 67 million…
7 Fun facts about the Tour de France
I gather some original facts or numbers about the famous French bike race, the one, the unique: The Tour de France! 1 – Created by a Newspaper It all started with a simple 1200 meters race in Paris in 1868. Later on, two newspapers “l’Auto”…
What is the French game of Pétanque?
The question that you will always hear around a pétanque field in France. “You shoot or you point?” (Tu tires ou tu pointes) Probably the sport that couldn’t be more French: La pétanque (or Boules). This sport belongs to the French culture, and French people…