MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Tennis Court Oath
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Estates General
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Storming of the Bastille
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March to Versailles
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tennis Court Oath, French Serment du Jeu de Paume, (June 20, 1789), dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French nation (the Third Estate) during the meeting of the Estates-General (traditional assembly) at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tennis Court Oath-A pledge made by the members of France’s National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution. The Bastille-A Paris prison overrun by French revolutionaries in search of weapons.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Tennis Court Oath was a pledge taken on June 20, 1789 by members of the Third Estate of France, along with several sympathetic members of the clergy and nobility, not to disband until they had produced a constitution for France.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Tennis Court Oath was written by Emmanuel Sieyès, administered by Jean-Sylvain Bailly and signed by 576 deputies with one abstainer. Later, the oath was famously depicted by the revolutionary artist Jacques-Louis David.