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Following the 100 year celebration of the oath in 1889, what had been the Royal Tennis Court was again forgotten and deteriorated. Prior to World War II, there was a plan to convert it into a table tennis room for Senate administrators at the Palace. In 1989 the bicentenary of the French Revolution was an opportunity to restore the tennis court ...
The painter Jacques-Louis David's famous sketch, le Serment du jeu de paume ('the Tennis Court Oath') now hangs in the court of the Palace of Versailles. It depicts a seminal moment of the French Revolution , when, on 20 June 1789, deputies of the Estates-General met at the court and vowed that they would not disband before the proclamation of ...
The Tennis Court Oath (Le Serment du Jeu de paume) by David. The Tennis Court Oath (French: Le Serment du Jeu de paume) is an incomplete painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, painted between 1790 and 1794 and showing the titular Tennis Court Oath at Versailles, one of the foundational events of the French Revolution.
By the Age of Napoleon, the royal families of Europe were besieged and real tennis, a court game, was largely abandoned. [26] Real tennis played a role in the history of the French Revolution, through the Tennis Court Oath, a pledge signed by French deputies in a real tennis court, which formed a decisive early step in starting the revolution.
Le Serment du Jeu de paume by Jacques-Louis David (c. 1791), depicting the Tennis Court Oath. Shaken by this challenge to his authority, the king agreed to a reform package that he would announce at a royal session of the Estates-General.
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Tennis Court Oath, taken on 20 June 1789 by members of the French Third Estate. Oath of Fëanor, in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien. Oath of the Peach Garden, a fictional event in the 14th century Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong. The Baljuna Covenant, an oath sworn by Genghis Khan and a small group of ...
When he shut down the Salle des États where the Assembly met, the Assembly moved its deliberations to a nearby tennis court. They swore the Tennis Court Oath (20 June 1789), under which they agreed not to separate until they had given France a constitution. A majority of the representatives of the clergy soon joined them, as did forty-seven ...