Before It Was Tennis, It Was Everything The untold story of jeu de paume — the royal game that gave birth to modern tennis, parliamentary democracy, and an obsession with how to play. — — — There is a moment in June 1789 that every French schoolchild knows, even if they've forgotten the details. The delegates of the Third Estate, locked out of their assembly hall at Versailles, made their way across the palace grounds and into a long, bare-walled building nearby. There, beneath a vaulted ceiling that had echoed... Read more...