Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin:
Das Mädchen mit dem Federball
Badminton / Federball -
I really like this kind of sports...
It's so much fun going out, enjoying nice weather
and playing badminton in the park
with the family and friends.
In India already 2000 years ago people played
a similar game, were a ball with
chicken feathers was used.
But Badminton itself derives from the county Gloucestershire.
1872 the colonial officer brought the game Poona from
India and soon found a lot of aficionados.
And because at that time, there weren't any halls where it
could be played, people went into churches and played it
there: what a nice idea...