Bagatelle

If you like concerts, check out the wonderful events in Bagatelle Gardens in the Bois de Bologne.

What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day 2009

We'll do short stories some other day Varley's "Bagatelle" -- number one -- read it now!

The Science Fiction Top 10 Douglas Hoffman 2005

We'll do short stories some other day Varley's "Bagatelle" -- number one -- read it now!

Archive 2005-11-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005

Goodchildren Street (Rue des Bons Enfants), and above all those two streets in the Faubourg Marigny which old Bernard Marigny amused himself by naming for two games of chance at which, it is said, he had lost a fortune -- namely Bagatelle and Craps -- the latter not the game played with dice, but an old-time game of cards.

American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

I one day dined at Bagatelle, which is about four miles from Paris, in the Bois du Bologne, the parisian Hyde Park, in which the fashionable equestrian, upon his norman hunter,

The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. John Carr 1802

While it is believed the ancient Greeks played something similar to pinball, the origins of the modern game are said to date to a game unveiled in 1777 called Bagatelle, after the hunting lodge where it was first played.

post-gazette.com - News 2010

The table game was dubbed "Bagatelle" by the Count and shortly after swept through France, evolving into various forms which eventually culminated in the modern pinball machine.

Archive 2009-06-01 elena maria vidal 2009

The table game was dubbed "Bagatelle" by the Count and shortly after swept through France, evolving into various forms which eventually culminated in the modern pinball machine.

Bagatelle elena maria vidal 2009

"Bagatelle" has long been one of my favourite stories by John Varley.

Review of Analog, October 2005 Douglas Hoffman 2005

Lordship and family, whose private secretary, Denis Godley, Esq., occupied the picturesque cottage "Bagatelle," facing the Holland Road, on the

Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868