FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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a promise to redistribute all the wealth in France.
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a vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constitution.
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an oath of loyalty to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, an outspoken lawyer that called for doing away with the relics of feudalism.
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a promise not to rest until all members of the clergy were tried and executed.
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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: -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-3: -The Tennis Court Oath (in French, Serment du jeu de Paume) was a commitment to a national constitution and representative government, taken by delegates at the Estates-General at Versailles. It has become one of the most iconic scenes of the French Revolution.
Detailed explanation-4: -The representatives vowed “not to separate, and to reassemble whenever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established, ” and the oath would lead to the Third Estate leading the French Revolution.