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    The representatives of the common people in France (the Third Estate) took the Tennis Court Oath on June 20, 1789, swearing to write a constitution and not separate until finished. Realizing they would be outvoted in attempts at reform, they had formed the National Assembly days prior. Locked out of their meeting hall, they gathered at a nearby indoor tennis court, demonstrating their solidarity and forcing King Louis XVI to have the clergy and nobility join them in the National Assembly a week later.

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    The representatives of the common people in France (the Third Estate) took the Tennis Court Oath on June 20, 1789, swearing to write a constitution and not separate until finished. Realizing they would be outvoted in attempts at reform, they had formed the National Assembly days prior. Locked out of their meeting hall, they gathered at a nearby indoor tennis court, demonstrating their solidarity and forcing King Louis XVI to have the clergy and nobility join them in the National Assembly a week later.

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    Tennis Court Oath, French Serment Du Jeu de Paume, (June 20, 1789), Dramatic Act of Defiance by Representatives of The

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    The representatives of the common people in France (the Third Estate) took the Tennis Court Oath on June 20, 1789, swearing to write a constitution and not separate until finished. Realizing they would be outvoted in attempts at reform, they had formed the National Assembly days prior. Locked out of their meeting hall, they gathered at a nearby indoor tennis court, demonstrating their solidarity and forcing King Louis XVI to have the clergy and nobility join them in the National Assembly a week later.

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    Tennis Court Oath, French Serment du Jeu de Paume, (June 20, 1789), dramatic act of defiance by representatives of the

    nonprivileged classes of the French nation (the Third Estate) during the meeting of the Estates-General (traditional assembly) at the beginning of the French Revolution. The deputies of the Third Estate, realizing that in any attempt at reform they would be outvoted by the two privileged orders, the clergy and the nobility, had formed, on June 17, a National Assembly. 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 anoath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France. In the face of the solidarity of the Third Estate, King Louis XVI relented and on June 27 ordered the clergy and the nobility to join with the Third Estate in the National Assembly.

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