Francois Morellet.JEU DE PAUME The natural child of Max Bill and Alphonse Alphonse (älfôNs`), 1220–71, count of Poitiers and of Toulouse, brother of King Louis IX of France. By his marriage to the daughter of Raymond VII, count of Toulouse, he inherited Raymond's lands in 1249. An able administrator, he did much to heal the wounds of the crusade against the Albigenses. Allais, born by chance in 1926, Francois Morellet combines the joys of geometry and wordplay in his work. This ninety-five piece full-career survey, his first in Paris since the 1986 retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou, should prove once and for all that he is one of the four or five most important French artists of the postwar period (to resort to the kind of appraisal that never fails to cause dissension). Daniel Abadie, the museum's director, places particular emphasis on the neon pieces, where the genius of the absurd vies with a programmatic rigor rigor mor´tis the stiffening of a dead body accompanying depletion of adenosine triphosphate in the muscle fibers. rig·or (r  g . A work Morellet conceived for the occasion will enliven the Jeu de Paume's facade. Nov. 14, 2000-Jan. 7, 2001.
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