Longue Paume

Longue paume is a form of jeu de paume - literally “game of the hand”. An important difference is that longue paume is played outside, while regular jeu de paume is an indoor sport. An ancestor sport of tennis, it is played in two forms, à enlevér (“removed”, with a neutral zone between halves) and à terrer (“grounded”, without obstacles between halves). It was one of the many sports practiced at the 1900 Olympic Games.