The Salle de la Bouteille or Salle du Jeu de Paume de la Bouteille , later known as the Hôtel [de] Guénégaud or Guénégaud Theatre , was a 1671 theatre located in Paris, France, between the rue de Seine and the rue des Fossés de Nesle (now 42 rue Mazarine, at its intersection with the rue Jacques Callot). It was across from the rue Guénégaud, which ran behind the garden of a townhouse formerly known as the Hôtel de Guénégaud on the quai de Nevers. The theatre was the first home of the Paris Opera and in 1680 became the first theatre of the Comédie-Française . It closed in 1689 and was later partially demolished and remodeled for other purposes.
12-426: Originally a tennis court ( jeu de paume ) that was converted into a theatre, it was inaugurated in 1671 as the first home of Pierre Perrin 's Académie d'Opéra (see Paris Opera ). The first French opera, Robert Cambert 's Pomone with a libretto by Perrin, premiered there on 3 March of that year. A second lyric work, Les peines et les plaisirs de l'amour , with a libretto by Gabriel Gilbert and music by Cambert,
24-714: A museum of contemporary art, is housed in a former court on the north side of the Tuileries park in the centre of Paris . The painter Jacques-Louis David 's famous sketch, le Serment du jeu de paume ('the Tennis Court Oath ') now hangs in the court of the Palace of Versailles . It depicts a seminal moment of the French Revolution , when, on 20 June 1789, deputies of the Estates-General met at
36-462: Is a ball-and-court game that originated in France . It was an indoor precursor of tennis played without racquets , and so "game of the hand", though these were eventually introduced. It is a former Olympic sport , and has the oldest ongoing annual world championship in sport, first established over 250 years ago. The term also refers to the court on which the game is played and its building, which in
48-502: Is generally difficult to ascertain with certainty, and some, like the Mesoamerican ballgame clearly have an independent origin. Various other racquet games ( squash , badminton , etc.) may be related to one degree or another. Étienne Pasquier , a writer and a historian, published an essay regarding jeu de paume in his Recherches ; late 16th century. Pasquier was addicted to the sport. The Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume ,
60-696: The Jeu de Paume de l'Étoile on the rue des Fossés-Saint-Germain-des-Prés (the southeastward extension of the rue des Fossés de Nesle), today known as the rue de l'Ancienne-Comédie . 48°51′19″N 2°20′15″E / 48.855394°N 2.337596°E / 48.855394; 2.337596 Jeu de paume Jeu de paume ( UK : / ˌ ʒ ɜː d ə ˈ p oʊ m / , French: [ʒø d(ə) pom] ; originally spelled jeu de paulme ; lit. ' palm game ' ), nowadays known as real tennis , (US) court tennis or (in France) courte paume ,
72-828: The Rue de Vaugirard . In 1673, after the death of Molière , the Salle de la Bouteille became the home of the Guénégaud Theatre, a company formed from the remnants of the troupe of Molière and players from the Théâtre du Marais . In 1680, after merging with the troupe from the Hôtel de Bourgogne , the company became known as the Comédie-Française and continued to perform in the Guénégaud until 1689, when it moved to
84-426: The 17th century was sometimes converted into a theatre . In the earliest versions of the game, the players hit the ball with their hands, as in palla , volleyball , Fives , or certain varieties of pelota . Jeu de paume , or jeu de paulme as it was formerly spelled, literally means "palm game". In time, gloves replaced bare hands. Even when paddle-like bats, and finally racquets, became standard equipment for
96-731: The court and vowed that they would not disband before the proclamation of a formal Constitution for France. Le Jeu de Paume is a moral ode published in 1791 by André Chénier . In the 1981 film The French Lieutenant's Woman , socialite Charles Smithson ( Jeremy Irons ) is seen playing jeu de paume in London. In the Agatha Christie's Poirot TV series episode "Death in the Clouds", Poirot mentions that tennis, considered an English game, originated in 11th-century France as jeu de paume. The 2014 Whitney Biennial exhibition featured
108-588: The game by the late 17th century, the name did not change. It became known as "tennis" in English (see History of tennis ) , and later " real tennis " after the derived game of lawn tennis became the more widely known sport. The term is used in France today to denote the game of tennis on 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
120-508: The outdoor version, longue paume ("long palm"), played on a field of variable length. At the 1908 Summer Olympics , jeu de paume was a medal event: American Jay Gould II won the gold medal. Since 1740, jeu de paume has been the subject of an amateur world championship, held each year in September. It is the oldest active trophy in international sport. Various other forms of handball may be related to one degree or another; this
132-584: The premiere of the stop-motion film Jeu de Paume by Joshua Mosley . Jeu de paume at the 1908 Summer Olympics Jeu de paume was an event contested at the 1908 Summer Olympics , the only time the Summer Olympic Games featured the sport as a medal event. In the Official Report of the 1908 Olympic Games, the sport is referred to as "Tennis (jeu de paume)", while tennis is referred to as "lawn tennis". The competition venue
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#1732772821651144-590: Was performed in 1672. On 13 March 1672 the surintendant of the king's music, Jean-Baptiste Lully , acquired Perrin's rights to perform opera and named his company the Académie Royale de Musique, although it also continued to be called the Opéra. Because of legal difficulties Lully could not use the Salle de la Bouteille, and moved the Opéra to a theatre built by Carlo Vigarani in the Bel-Air tennis court on
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