Real tennis Real tennis Real tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original racquet sport from which the modern game of tennis (originally called "lawn tennis") is derived. It is also known as court tennis in the United States, formerly royal tennis in England and Australia, and courte-paume in France (a reference to the older, racquetless game of "jeu de paume", the ancestor of modern handball and racquet games; many French real tennis courts are at "jeu de paume" clubs). The term "real" was first used by journalists in the early 20th century as
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume nearly 4000 works of German "degenerate" art in Berlin in 1939. French resistance curator Rose Valland, who was working at the museum, kept a secret list of all the works passing through, and after the Nazi defeat in 1945 most of these works were thereby returned to their rightful owners. Today, some 70 of Rosenberg's paintings are missing, including: the large Picasso watercolor "Naked Woman on the Beach", painted in Provence in 1923; seven works by Matisse; and the "Portrait of Gabrielle Diot" by Degas. Between 1947 and 1986, it contained the Musée du Jeu de Paume, which held many