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The Tennis Court Oath (French: Serment du Jeu de Paume) was taken on 20 June 1789 by the members of the French Third Estate in a tennis court on the initiative of Jean Joseph Mounier. Their vow "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom is established" became a pivotal event in the French ...
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Le Serment du Jeu de paume par Jacques-Louis David. Le serment du Jeu de paume est l’engagement solennel d’union dans le but de mettre fin à l'Ancien Régime pris le 20 juin 1789 dans la salle du Jeu de paume, à Versailles, par 576 députés français qui prennent à cette occasion le nom d'Assemblée nationale.
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 an oath never to separate until a written constitution had been established for France.
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Detail from David’s painting of the Tennis Court Oath, showing Jean-Sylvian Bailly. The swearing of the Tennis Court Oath (French, Serment du jeu de Paume) was a pivotal moment in the French Revolution. It took place in a royal tennis court at Versailles some six weeks into the Estates General.
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.
Découvrez Le serment du Jeu de paume, 20 juin 1789 analysée par Robert FOHR et Pascal TORRÈS au travers d’œuvres et d’images d’archive.
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 ...
