The game of paume (real tennis), 18th century. A man with racquet watches other nobles playing real tennis over a net in a courtyard. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagne's Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d'Adresse), Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1903.

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