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Tennis Court Oath

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Tennis Court Oath

(June 20, 1789) Oath taken by deputies of the Third Estate in the French Revolution. Believing that their newly formed National Assembly was to be disbanded, the deputies met at a nearby tennis court when they were locked out of their usual meeting hall at Versailles. They vowed never to separate until a written constitution was established for France. Their solidarity forced Louis XVI to order the clergy and the nobility to join with the Third Estate in the National Assembly.
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Also included are 20 primary documents, which include the American Articles of Confederation, the French Revolution's Tennis Court Oath, the French National Assembly's Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a more documents of the French and American Revolutions.
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The members swore what history has called the Tennis Court Oath that they would not dissolve their assembly until they had written a new constitution for France.
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