This sport is a variant of bowling and is reputed to have been invented in 1907 in the village of La Ciotat near Marseilles as a less physically-demanding form of jeu provençal. Physical effort was reduced by shortening the length of the pitch by roughly half and replacing a moving delivery with a stationary one.
The name is derived from a term which in the Provençal language means "stuck feet", because the feet have to remain fixed together within a (small) circle. It is of interest that this also means that handicapped people in wheelchairs can compete without any disadvantage.
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