MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Napoleonic Code
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Estates General
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coup d’état
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Tennis Court Oath
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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: -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: -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-4: -Painter Jacques-Louis David immortalised this founding scene in the so-called Oath of the Royal Tennis Court, a painting he left unfinished, and which can now be found in the Palace of Versailles attics.