Which modern sport is similar to the 18th century game `battledore'?
Battledore and shuttlecock 2,000 years ago, and it has been popular in India, China, Japan, and Siam for at least that long. In Europe, it was played by children for centuries. Its modern development is the game of badminton. Battledore and shuttlecock Battledore and shuttlecock, or jeu de volant, is an early game related to that of modern badminton. This game is played by two people, using small rackets, called battledores, made of parchment or rows of gut stretched across wooden frames, and shuttlecocks, made of a base of some light material, such as cork, with trimmed feathers fixed around the top. The
18th-century French literature movement, which emerged in reaction to the first movement; the beginnings of Romanticism, which exalted the role of emotion in art and life. In common with a similar movement in England at the same time, the writers of 18th century France were critical, skeptical and innovative. Their lasting contributions were the ideas of liberty, toleration, humanitarianism, equality, and progress, which became the ideals of modern western democracy. The 18th century saw the gradual weakening of the absolute monarchy constructed by Louis XIV. Its power slipped away during the Regency of Philippe d'Orléans, (1715–1723) and the long regime of King Louis