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The Tennis Court Oath essentially marked the real beginning of the French Revolution. When the Third Estate was knocked out of the meeting of the First and Second Estates, they moved to a nearby tennis court where they declared themselves the National Assembly and swore never to separate until they had drafted a constitution for France.

By declaring that they had the power to remake the government, the National Assembly became a group not only joined in protest against Louis XVI's despotic rule, but joined under the assertion of having sovereign power in the nation.

The Tennis Court Oath was what began the real revolutionary action that was soon to come.

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No. It was a consequence of the Estates General. There were three estates; the clergy, the nobility and the Third Estate. The Third was, of course, much more numerous and representative of far more people than the other two; but each Estate had only one vote. When the representatives of the Third Estate saw clearly that there was no possibility of their voice being heard, and were made to leave their meeting place for 'redecoration', they met in the tennis court (tennis was a complicated, aristocratic and above all indoor game) and swore not to disband until they, and they alone, had been recognised as a National Assembly.

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It allowed them to show their resolve and determination.

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The Tennis Court Oath was when in 1857, King Louis VIII decided he would only play tennis on Thursday nights and Sunday afternoons.

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whats the painting of the tennis Cort oath saying about the development of nationalism in France

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