It was in Dieppe that badminton appeared in France at the very end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century with the creation of the Dieppe badminton club (DBC) in 1907. It was a Danish sportsman, Charles Meyer, second in the 1896 Paris-Roubaix cycling race and a native of Diepp, who set up covered courts in a garage located at the time not far from the casino. Moorish. There was even an indoor tennis court, probably one of the first in France.
