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The Tennis Court was built in 1686 near the Palace of Versailles. The Oath signified for the first time that French citizens formally stood in opposition to Louis XVI. The National Assembly's refusal to back down forced the king to make concessions.
The oath was a pledge signed by 576 members out of 577 of France's Third Estate and a few members of the First Estate on June 20, 1789 in a tennis court near ...
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The Tennis Court Oath is an incomplete painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, painted between 1790 and 1794 and showing the titular ...
Tennis Court Oath, (June 20, 1789), dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French nation (the Third Estate) during the ...
The Tennis Court Oath was a vow taken by the representatives of the Third Estate of the Estates-General on 20 June 1789, creating a separate National ...
'The Tennis Court Oath, 20th June 1789' was created in 1791 by Jacques-Louis David in Neoclassicism style. Find more prominent pieces of history painting at ...
(historical) An oath taken on 20 June 1789 by the members of the French Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, vowing "not to ...
The Tennis Court Oath is a 1962 poetry collection by the American writer John Ashbery. Ashbery lived in Paris when it was published, working as an art critic. ...
The Tennis Court Oath was taken on 20 June 1789 by the members of the French Third Estate in a tennis court on the initiative of Jean Joseph Mounier.
Jan 3, 2020 · The Tennis Court Oath, in The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France, 1789–1907 (1908) by Frank ...
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