Thread by @LilleCC

There is more and more evidence that France and Flanders are the birthplace place of #Cricket
The 1st mention of criquet founded in a Letter of Grievance to King Louis XI on 11 Octobre 1478 (Liettres) are well know since 1766. In 1900 & 1970, historians was already speaking about

This famous edition about a Cricket Player à Saint Omer in 1593 (Jesuit school for the children of English Catholics at St Omer in 1593) show that #Cricket was in France in the early years but French seems to prefere Le Jeu de Paume (Real Tennis)

The French origins of #Cricket is now know in the british culture even this idea is a bit upset :
And God Created Cricket (2010) by Simon Hughes & Cricketing Lives (2021) by Richard H Thomas

#Cricket have been played in France at Boulogne, Calais and St Omer in 1818. St Omer et Boulogne play 3 games in 1833. Paris CC was founded in 1863. Napoleon III attended a cricket match at Bois de Boulogne. This story is in Cricket Highways and Byways (1927) by Ashley Cooper

The French Story of #Cricket in the XIXe are in this good blog : surlatouche.fr/le-paris-crick…
@MCCOfficial came in Paris in 1867. The Baron Hausmann and Marquis de LaTour-Maubourg was Paris CC members. Despite the encouragement of Napoleon Bonapartre Cricket did not take in France ..

Cricket was still playing in Le Touquet in 1912 ! The origins are Flamish, the Game is english and we all love #Cricket. We try now with the Liettres Challenge 1478, @HDFCricket and all the North of France Cricket Club to maintain this "french" passion for Cricket.

Good Easter