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    The rule forcing players to take whenever possible was introduced in France in around 1535, at which point the game became known as Jeu forcé, identical...
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  • Félicité du Jeu is a French actress. She is best known for her role as DC Stella Goodman in the BBC drama Waking the Dead. Du Jeu studied at the Conservatoire...
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    variant of jeu provençal in 1910, in what is now called the Jules Lenoir Boulodrome in the town of La Ciotat near Marseilles. A former jeu provençal player...
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    Vaux-le-Vicomte. Their collaboration began in earnest in 1664 with Le Mariage forcé. More collaborations followed, some of them conceived for fetes at the royal...
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  • Jeu Royal de la Guerre (Royal Game of War) is a French novelty card game for two to twelve players that was described in La Maison des Jeux Academiques...
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    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...
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  • it is usually assumed that he died on that expedition. Raoul composed the jeu parti "Sir, loez moi a loisir" with Theobald of Navarre. He also dedicated...
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    mathematical work on collisions of spheres: Théorie Mathématique des Effets du Jeu de Billard, considered a classic on the subject. Coriolis's name began to...
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  • 2013. Audureau, William (14 January 2018). "Quantic Dream, un fleuron du jeu vidéo français aux méthodes de management contestées". Le Monde (in French)...
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    Rue de Rivoli, is the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume. It was originally a court for the sport of "Jeu de paume", a form on indoor tennis. It was built...
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