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Lille Cricket Club
@LilleCC
1er Club de #Cricket du Nord de la #France - Au féminin en D1 et au masculin en D2 @FranceCricket, en @HDFCricket, et en amical contre le reste du Monde
Apr 4, 2021 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
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)