FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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Tennis Courts and they took an oath called the “Tennis Court Oaths”
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Tennis Courts and they took an oath called the “Tennis Net Oaths”
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National Assembly Hall and they took an oath called the “Declaration of the Rights of Man”
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National Assembly Hall and they wrote a document called the “Declaration of the Rights of Man”
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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).
Detailed explanation-2: -On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du Jeu de Paume) in the tennis court which had been built in 1686 for the use of the Versailles palace.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Versailles, France, the deputies of the Third Estate, which represent commoners and the lower clergy, meet on the Jeu de Paume, an indoor tennis court, in defiance of King Louis XVI’s order to disperse.
Detailed explanation-4: -Locked out of the meeting hall for constituting itself the National Assembly, the Third Estate met on the tennis court at Versailles on June 20 and took the famous Tennis Court Oath not to disband until a new constitution had been created for France.
Detailed explanation-5: -On 4 May 1789 the last grand ceremony of the Ancien Régime was held in Versailles: the procession of the Estates General. From all over France, 1, 200 deputies had arrived for the event. The deputies of the Third Estate (the Commoners) were the greatest in number, dressed in black with a gold and black overcoat.