jun 20, 1789 - Tennis Court Oath

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When citizens of the Third Estate decided to establish a new National Assembly, King Louis locked them out of the Estates-general meeting after a break in an attempt to keep them from assembling. However, Third Estate representatives we able to find a different room in France, an indoor tennis court. Here, they swore the famous Tennis Court Oath and vowed, "not to separate and to reassemble wherever require, until the Constitution of the kingdom is established."

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