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may 5, 1789 - Tennis Court Oath

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When the Third Estate was locked out of the Estates General meeting and declared on May 5, 1789 (on a Versailles tennis court) that they were the National Assembly, they invited the other two estates to join them and decreed that a constitution would be written before they would adjourn.

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may 5, 1789
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~ 237 years ago