MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citzen
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the Constitution of 1795
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the French Bill of Rights
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the Tennis Court Oath
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Detailed explanation-1: -Finding themselves locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles on June 20 and thinking that the king was forcing them to disband, they moved to a nearby indoor tennis court (salle du jeu de paume). There they took an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.
Detailed explanation-2: -We swear never to separate ourselves from the National Assembly, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the realm is drawn up and fixed upon solid foundations. [All the members swear the same oath between the hands of the president.]
Detailed explanation-3: -The 576 members moved their meeting to a tennis court in Saint-Louis, Versailles and signed an oath that they would not stop meeting up until they have written a new constitution for France. As the Third Estate didn’t have the right to act as a National Assembly, this pledge is seen as a revolutionary act.