Louis XVI20 June 1789
Tennis Court Oath is both a revolutionary act, and an assertion that political authority derived from the people and their representatives rather than from the monarch himself
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Tennis Court Oath is both a revolutionary act, and an assertion that political authority derived from the people and their representatives rather than from the monarch himself
Tennis Court Oath, pledge signed by 576 out of the 577 members from the 3rd Estate who were locked out of a meeting of the Estates General on 20 June 1789 in a tennis court.
The Tennis Court Oath became a defining act in the Third Estate’s transformation into a national representative body.
on Versailles.
Tennis Court Oath is both a revolutionary act, and an assertion that political authority derived from the people and their representatives rather than from the monarch himself.
The deputies congregate in a nearby indoor real tennis court and take an oath "not to separate, and to reassembly wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the Kingdom is established."
The deputies congregate in a nearby indoor real tennis court and take an oath "not to separate, and to reassembly wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the Kingdom is established.".
The deputies pledged to continue to meet until a constitution had been written, despite the royal prohibition.
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