Please let us know. Search This Site. PAGES home search sitemap store. ABOUT contact author info advertising. This event was a founding act of French democracy and a major contributing factor in the separation of authority and national sovereignty. It gave birth to the National Constituent Assembly, which in August voted for the abolition of feudalism and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Built in , this sports hall was privately owned. The royal family, and especially the king, played real tennis here, a type of ball game that was a predecessor of tennis.
It thereafter served a variety of purposes. In the room was used as a workshop by the painter Antoine-Jean Gros , as a military hospice in , and as a workshop by the painter Horace Vernet during the reign of Louis-Philippe , before being fully restored under the Third Republic. The restoration work on the building and decor was undertaken by the architect Edmond Guillaume and began in Edmond Guillaume installed a Doric aedicule held up by two marble columns, which came from the Grove of the Domes in the gardens of Versailles.
Running around the edge of the room is a frieze of foliage in which the names of the signatories of the oath are painted. It was inaugurated in the June of by the Francois Mitterrand and called the Galerie National Jeu de Paume and offered visitors an entirely different look at modern and contemporary artists, but also to introduce people to other art areas such as film, video and cinema.
Yet even this part of its history came to an end in the March of and since this time the Jeu de Paume has now developed a completely different style of exhibition for photography and media presentations. In fact, the Musee du Jeu de Paume started implementing a plan from to introduce new mediums including via the web with a virtual space, along with adding Le Magazine in which uses a range of resources including video, photo gallery, audio and text files that are available in both French and English.
Follow us Facebook Twitter Wordpress Pinterest. One of only two Jeu de Paume pros working in France, Ross is the modern day equivalent of the maitres-paumiers who facilitated games in the renaissance era. Incorporated by royal charter in , a given maitres-paumier might be expected to play the role of coach, ball boy, practice partner, janitor, umpire, bouncer, and bookie in a single day at the Jeu de Paume court.
As with the old maitres-paumiers Ross devotes one day a week to hand-sewing game balls out of cork, string, and yellow felt. Smaller, heavier and less bouncy than the balls used in lawn tennis, these balls require a tightly strung wooden racquet, which is bent at the head for playing floor and corner shots.
This became evident from my first few practice volleys: Accustomed to the power strokes of lawn tennis, my shots bounced off the back wall and Ross returned them with ease. Players can serve the ball from most any position on the service end of the court, though aces are rare since each serve must touch the penthouse before coming into play on the hazard non-service end.
Changing social and political attitudes on the continent further marginalized the game into a purely aristocratic hobby, and disused Paume courts around Paris were converted into synagogues, storerooms, gymnasiums, garages, and sheep pens.
By the time French constitutionalists used the Jeu de Paume court at Versailles to gather and foreswear their unity in , the sport was popularly regarded as a relic of another era.
Still, the game managed to retain a small number of ardent followers. Since the game favors strategy over brawn, a particularly agile and cunning player can dominate the game for years. Thus, champions tend to be much older than those in lawn tennis: Rob Fahey, a year-old Australian, has held the world Jeu de Paume title since ; from to the game was dominated by Pierre Etchebaster, an eccentric French Basque who retired, still the champion, at age Perhaps the most storied player of the title era was Frenchman Edmond Barre, who retained the world championship a record 33 years, from to A flamboyant character, Barre would walk as many as 20 miles to win an exhibition match, then walk the same distance home that same day.
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