National Gallery of Modern Art Jeu de Paume

National Gallery of Modern Art Jeu de Paume is located in a building that Napoleon III in 1861, built in the Tuileries garden for ball games (jeu de paume). This is an old game of tennis ancestor common in Europe since the XIII century. Mentioned in the novel Dumas' The Three Musketeers ": D'Artagnan, played it in front of an audience with the king. I played it and Napoleon III, the last Emperor of the French. They built the building, in fact, a tennis court, in its architecture was double Orangerie, located on the other side of the garden.