1847.17

US Traveler Sees Baseball-Like Game in Northeastern France

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City/State/Country:	Rhiems, France
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Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	YouthYouth
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Text	A Boston newspaper published a letter from a Bostonian traveling in Rheims, France, about his visit to a boys' school there: "They played all my old plays. There close to a triumphal arch under which Roman Emperors had passed; under the dark walls and gothic towers of a city older than Christianity itself . . . . these boys, as if to mock all antiquity and all venerable things, were playing all the very plays of my school-boy days, 'tag' and 'gould' and 'base ball' and 'fox and geese,' &c." Rheims is about 90 miles NE of Paris
Sources	Boston Olive Branch, January 9, 1847, page 3, "European Correspondence."
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Comment	Finder David Block's comment, 11/2015: "Hard to know what to make of this. Maybe he spied a game that resembled baseball (theque?). And what is gould? I've never heard of it before." Edit with form to add a comment
Query	Comments, research tips, speculation welcomed. And . . . what is the game called "gould?" Edit with form to add a query
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Submitted by	David Block
Submission Note	Email of 11/24/2015
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