Marseille on Malagasy Time

Éric Breton, La Provence, 10 March 2017.

At the Maison de la Boule, in Le Panier, Hervé Rofritsch shows works blending fire and pétanque balls by Ambinintsoa Andrianjakarivelo. A Malagasy visual artist living in Aix-en-Provence and a pétanque referee, she met him by chance on the flight to the world championships in Madagascar. The article traces her love of pétanque since childhood, passed on by her father, and her role refereeing Malagasy players touring French pétanque grounds. It also mentions a plan with Hervé Rofritsch to donate pétanque balls to Madagascar, a kind of “boules without borders.”

It’s a passion I’ve had since I was very small. I used to go with my father to the pétanque grounds.

Summary and quotation from the original article, signed Éric Breton, under the title “Marseille à l’heure malgache.”