MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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King Lois gave in and scheduled a meeting to have a new constitution written, which changed the French government from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy.
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The estates general was dissolved and the 3rd estate took complete control over the government and a president was immediately named.
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The 3rd estate swore to steal all the ammunition from the Bastille.
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The sport of tennis was outlawed in France for 100 years.
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Detailed explanation-1: -On June 20, he ordered to close the hall where the National Assembly met, but the deliberations were moved to a nearby tennis court, where they proceeded to swear the Tennis Court Oath by which they agreed not to separate until they had settled the constitution of France.
Detailed explanation-2: -20 June 1789 They were excluded from their regular meeting place by King Louis XVI and met instead at a nearby indoor tennis court. Here they pledged themselves to create a written constitution for France; by 1791 they would have one.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -In these modest surroundings, they took the historic Tennis Court Oath, with which they agreed not to disband until a new French constitution had been adopted.
Detailed explanation-5: -After the Tennis Court Oath, the French King Louis XVI ordered the clergy and the nobility to join the newly declared National Assembly. The deputies of the Third Estate had decided to break away from the other two estates in the Estates General, believing that they were the true representatives of the people.