Boule
# Boule

Boule may refer to:

## Ball games

* Boules, a collective term for games involving players throwing balls at a smaller target ball
   * Pétanque, a common variety originating in France and sometimes loosely called "boules" in English
   * Boule Lyonnaise, another boules game of French origin
   * Boule Bretonne, a boules game from Brittany
* Boule (gambling game), a game similar to roulette

## People

* Boule (community), an Akan people in Côte d'Ivoire, Africa
* Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé (1799–1865), French playwright
* Marcellin Boule (1861–1942), French palaeontologist

## Politics

* Boule (ancient Greece), a citizens' council appointed to run daily affairs of a city
* Hellenic Parliament, transliterated as Vouli or Boule from Greek

## Science and geography

* Boule (crystal), an ingot of synthetically produced crystal
* Boule (gene), an alias for the gene BOLL, responsible for sperm production in animals
* Boule Range [sv], one of the Northern Continental Ranges in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

## Other uses

* The Boulé, or Sigma Pi Phi fraternity, the oldest fraternity for African Americans named with Greek letters
* Boule (bread), a round loaf of white bread
