Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Bowl

PEOPLE reports on Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's trip to a French bowling alley

Tthe couple took over France's "Le Palace Vert" with friend Mariane Pearl and her son.

Le Palace Vert's owner Patrick Bernard tells PEOPLE that once they arrived, the Jolie-Pitts, Pearl and the four children (Maddox, 5, Pax-Thien, 3, and Zahara, 2, and Adam Pearl, 5) hit the lanes.

Pitt was especially attentive, Bernard adds, and encouraged all the youngsters whenever they hit a pin.

"At one point though, because the children don't have the strength to always get the ball down the lane, it sometimes stops. Brad thought he'd go down the lane to push it along. He slipped and fell on his back. Hard," Bernard tells PEOPLE.

"Brad was particularly good at it," Bernard says. "He and the three boys played two-a-side teams against one another for almost an hour."
Bernard adds: "With only two lanes we're certainly the smallest bowling in France, so we're still having trouble realizing we spent Monday afternoon with the most famous couple in the world."