The Oath in the Tennis Court

The Revolutionary Age · 20 June 1789

The Oath in the Tennis Court

Locked out of their hall, six hundred men swear on a bare tennis court not to go home

On the morning of the twentieth of June, 1789, the commoners of France arrived at their meeting hall in Versailles and found the doors locked and soldiers at them.

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