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Jeu de paume was originally a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 precursor of lawn tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
 played without racquet
Racquet

A racquet is a sports implement consisting of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a network of cord is stretched tightly. It is used for striking a ball in such games as squash , tennis, racquetball, and badminton....
s. The players hit the ball with their hands, as in palla
Palla

Palla is a traditional Tuscany ball game played in towns between Siena and Grosseto. It is also called palla EH! because players call out eh! before serving....
, volleyball
Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
, or certain varieties of pelota
Pelota

Pelota can refer to the popular and shortened names for a number of ball games:* Baseball* Basque pelota* Bocce* Jai alai...
. Jeu de paume literally means: game of palm (of the hand). In time gloves replaced bare hands.






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Jeu De Paume
Jeu de paume was originally a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 precursor of lawn tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
 played without racquet
Racquet

A racquet is a sports implement consisting of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a network of cord is stretched tightly. It is used for striking a ball in such games as squash , tennis, racquetball, and badminton....
s. The players hit the ball with their hands, as in palla
Palla

Palla is a traditional Tuscany ball game played in towns between Siena and Grosseto. It is also called palla EH! because players call out eh! before serving....
, volleyball
Volleyball

Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....
, or certain varieties of pelota
Pelota

Pelota can refer to the popular and shortened names for a number of ball games:* Baseball* Basque pelota* Bocce* Jai alai...
. Jeu de paume literally means: game of palm (of the hand). In time gloves replaced bare hands. Even when bats, and finally racquets, became standard equipment for the game, the name did not change. It became known as "tennis" in English (see History of tennis
Tennis

Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....
), and later "real tennis
Real tennis

Real tennis is the original List of sports#Racket sports from which the modern game of lawn tennis, or tennis, is descended. It is also known as jeu de paume in France, "court tennis" in the United States...
" after lawn tennis became more popular than the parent game.

The term is used in France today to denote the game of real tennis or a court in which the ancient or modern game might be played. The indoor version is sometimes called jeu de courte paume or just courte paume (short palm) to distinguish it from the outdoor version, longue paume
Longue paume

Longue paume is an outdoor version of jeu de paume, an ancestor of modern tennis. Hundreds of years ago it was quite popular, particularly in France....
, played on a longer court.

Some important buildings in France are known by the name jeu de paume, in general because of their proximity to tennis courts or to sites on which courts once stood. Several works of art also bear this name, including the famous serment du jeu de paume ('the Tennis Court Oath
Tennis Court Oath

The Tennis Court Oath was a pivotal event during the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 out of the 577 members from the Third Estate and a few members of the First Estate during a meeting of the Estates General of 1789 of 20 June 1789 in a tennis court near the Palace of Versailles....
') in the Palace of Versailles
Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles, or simply Versailles, is a royal ch?teau in Versailles, the ?le-de-France region of France. In French language, it is known as the Ch?teau de Versailles....
. It depicts the formal announcement of the French revolution
French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudalism for the aristocracy and Roman Catholic Church clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Age of Enlightenment principles of cit...
 made in the Royal Tennis Court there on 20 June, 1789.

An art museum with rotating exhibitions, the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume

The Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume is a museum of contemporary art in the north-west corner of the Tuileries Palace in Paris.The building was constructed in 1861 during the reign of Napoleon III of France....
, also bears the name. It sits on the north side of the Tuileries park in the centre of Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
.

Jeu de paume was a medal event in the 1908 Summer Olympics
1908 Summer Olympics

The 1908 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the IV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in 1908 in London....
. American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 Jay Gould won the Gold medal.

Derived sports


Hand

  • Basque pelota
  • Fistball
    Fistball

    File:Faustball Frauen.jpgFistball is a very old sport which continues to be practiced all over the world: in Europe, North America and South America, Africa and Asia....
  • Frisian handball
    Frisian handball

    Frisian handball is a traditional Frisian sport, related to American handball and fives, that is most commonly practiced by people from the northern province of Frysl?n/Friesland....
  • Longue paume
    Longue paume

    Longue paume is an outdoor version of jeu de paume, an ancestor of modern tennis. Hundreds of years ago it was quite popular, particularly in France....
  • Pallone
    Pallone

    Pallone is the name of several traditional ball games, played in various regions of Italy, with minimal differences in regulations.Forms...
  • Valencian pilota
    Valencian pilota

    Pilota Valenciana or Valencian pilota is a traditional handball sport played in the Valencian Community. Its origins are not known, but seems to be related to the French Jeu de paume....
  • Volleyball
    Volleyball

    Volleyball is an Olympic Games team sport in which two teams of 6 active players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules....

Racquets

  • Court tennis
  • Tennis
    Tennis

    Tennis is a sport played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a strung racquet to strike a hollow rubber Tennis ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's tennis court....

Trivia

  • Le Jeu de Paume is a moral ode published in 1791 by André Chénier
    André Chénier

    Andr? Marie Ch?nier was a French poet, associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romanticism movement....

See also

  • Jeu de paume at the 1908 Summer Olympics
    Jeu de paume at the 1908 Summer Olympics

    Jeu de paume was an event contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics. This was the only Summer Olympic Games to contain this sport as a medal event....
  • Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
    Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume

    The Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume is a museum of contemporary art in the north-west corner of the Tuileries Palace in Paris.The building was constructed in 1861 during the reign of Napoleon III of France....
  • Serment du Jeu de Paume
    Tennis Court Oath

    The Tennis Court Oath was a pivotal event during the French Revolution. The Oath was a pledge signed by 576 out of the 577 members from the Third Estate and a few members of the First Estate during a meeting of the Estates General of 1789 of 20 June 1789 in a tennis court near the Palace of Versailles....
     during the French Revolution
  • Mesoamerican ballgame
    Mesoamerican ballgame

    The Mesoamerican ballgame was a sport with ritual associations played for over 3000 years by the pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica. The sport had different versions in different places during the millennia, and a modern version of the game, Ulama game, is still played in a few places by the local Native American ....
  • ball throwing


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