Sunday Times News: At a meeting of the Estates-General in France in 1789, during the rule of King Louis XVI, the deputies of the third estate outnumbered the deputies fr ...

No doubt, the famous Tennis Court Oath of the French Revolution was of serious concern to those who took it. At Jarvis Field on spring afternoons one may hear shorter oaths relating to something ...

The French Revolution, which began in 1789, distracted from the game, though one of the revolution’s founding moments, the Tennis Court Oath, took place in the tennis court at Versailles, where ...

The Tennis Court Oath of 1789 was a powerful political demand for rights from a bunch of fed-up citizens which kick-started the French Revolution. ... A meeting was set up, ...

The Jeu de Paume or Royal Tennis Court of Versailles, where the deputies of a newly formed National Assembly swore a revolutionary oath in 1789 to draft France’s first constitution, has been ...