Fontainebleau the United States returned those bases to French control. NATO moved AFCENT to Brunssum in the Netherlands and AIRCENT to Ramstein in West Germany. (Note that the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, also known as SHAPE, was located at Rocquencourt, west of Paris, quite a distance from Fontainebleau). In 2008, The men's World Championship of Real Tennis (Jeu de Paume) was held in the tennis court of the Chateau. The real tennis World Championship is the oldest in sport and Fontainebleau has one of only two active courts in France. Fontainebleau is a popular tourist destination; each year, 300,000 people
Jeu de paume 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. The 2014 Whitney Biennial exhibition featured the premiere of the stop-motion film "Jeu de Paume" by Joshua Mosley. Jeu de paume Jeu de paume (; ) is a ball-and-court game that originated in France. It was an indoor precursor of tennis played without racquets, though these were eventually