Some French soldiers carried their favorite bagatelle tables with them to America while helping to fight the British in the American Revolutionary War.

Bagatelle (from the Château de Bagatelle) is a billiards derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls (set at nine in the 19th century) past wooden pins (which act as obstacles) into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over.