Word: jeu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began a rocket ascent that is still going strong. Last week, with France's President René Coty on hand to officiate, the battlers for impressionism reached new stature in their own land. At last they have a worthy museum of their own, in the remodeled two-story Jeu de Paume* in the Tuileries Gardens facing Paris' Place de la Concorde...
Closed since 1954, when the building's inadequate structure was threatening damage to the impressionist masterpieces already hanging there, the Jeu de Paume was reopened as a completely redone museum, with the most modern lighting and humidity control, and hung with no less than 288 of the Louvre's freshly cleaned prize impressionists (see color pages). The opening was a tonic for French pride. Said France-Soir: "At last Paris has a living museum...
...triumph in bringing the ever-increasing harvest of impressionists together, Curator Bazin, with French pride, adds this footnote: "Those who deny that the French possess a sense of civic responsibility are advised to visit the Jeu de Paume. The impressionist gallery at the Louvre is not the accomplishment of the French government but of the people of France...
...Jeu de Paume (literally, game of palm) was a royal indoor tennis court built by Napoleon III in 1862. The game, known as jeu de courte paume, derived from a sort of handball to which racquets were added, was for centuries the rage in France. In the 1890s the game lost popularity to English lawn tennis...
...than 250 watts) at a distance of more than ten feet. To make faithful reproductions of the paintings, Schaal worked long hours at night in the empty galleries. For Part I of the results, to be followed next week with four pages in color of the Louvre's Jeu de Paume collection of impressionist paintings, see ART, Masterpieces of the Louvre...