Bars (sport)
See also: Bars
The play of bars is a medieval collective sport practiced in France of the XIII {{E}} at the 19th century. The bars term appears in 1300 in a text of Jean de Garlande describing a “kind of play” especially practiced in France. A text of 842 probably evokes this play, without naming it.
The Thrésor of the French language (1606) of Jean Nicot describes this sport thus: “set of bars, which is played by two bands, one face with face of the other in full shift, saillans their rows, ones on the other files with file, for tascher to be caught captive, where the first which attacks the skirmish is under the bars of celuy band opposite which leaves on luy, and cetuy under the bars of celuy of the other share jump in shift knew luy thus all and sundry, as long as both troppes estroitement are estroitement meslées. ”
This rather brutal play is practiced with six players minimum by team for ten to the maximum. The bars could be practiced on any ground, even raised or marécagueux.
Gargantua practiced the bars.
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