Poggio a Caiano I's tennis court (1543) intact but no longer in use. The "palatoia" (as the court was referred to in Tuscany - elsewhere known as "pallacorda") was built for Cosimo I at the same time as his court at Palazzo Pitti. The "tennis" of the Italian Renaissance was hugely popular at court and in the streets as in France where the sport is known as "jeu de paume". "Real tennis" (as it is called today), which requires a customised court with elaborate interior playing surfaces, is the model for modern tennis although the sport played in the Renaissance continues to be
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume Tuileries Gardens were stormed by protestors. Today, the Jeu de Paume is subsidised by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. Attendance increased from 200,000 visitors in 2006 to over 320,000 visitors in 2008. The museum's wartime history has been depicted, heavily fictionalized, several times on film. In John Frankenheimer's 1964 film "The Train", starring Burt Lancaster and Jeanne Moreau, Rose Valland is represented as Mademoiselle Villard, played by Suzanne Flon. In George Clooney's 2014 film "The Monuments Men", Valland is represented as Claire Simone, played by Cate Blanchett. In Anatole Litvak's 1967 film "The Night of the Generals", Peter