Jeu de paume

Étienne Pasquier, a writer and a historian, published an essay regarding jeu de paume in his Recherches; late 16th century.

[7] The Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, a museum of contemporary art, is housed in a former court on the north side of the Tuileries park in the centre of Paris.

It depicts a seminal moment of the French Revolution, when, on 20 June 1789, deputies of the Estates-General met at the court and vowed that they would not disband before the proclamation of a formal Constitution for France.

In the 1981 film The French Lieutenant's Woman, socialite Charles Smithson (Jeremy Irons) is seen playing jeu de paume in London.

The 2014 Whitney Biennial exhibition featured the premiere of the stop-motion film Jeu de Paume by Joshua Mosley.

Jeu de paume in the 17th century.
Late 18th-century illustration of jeu de paume paddle-bats or battoirs , and (in various stages of construction) strung racquets.
Earliest known picture of Jeu de Paume from a Book of Hours ( c. 1300 )
A modernised court in the Palace of Fontainebleau , Fontainebleau (1991).