The Jeu de Paume or Royal Tennis Court of Versailles, where the deputies of a newly formed National Assembly swore a revolutionary oath in 1789 to draft France’s first constitution, has been ...

The site of the tennis court at Versailles, where the Tennis Court Oath was sworn in 1789 ... 75,000-square-foot building with state-of-the-art training facilities and child care rooms ...

That is, although the game is French to the core—not one but two of France’s early kings died at the tennis courts, and the Republic was born on one, with the Tennis Court Oath—the French ...