Editing Tennis Court Oath (section)

==Significance and aftermath==

[[File:Salle du jeu de paume Versailles.jpg|thumb|The Tennis Court was built in 1686 near the [[Palace of Versailles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.versailles-tourisme.com/the-royal-tennis-court.html|title=The Royal tennis court|access-date=2021-06-21}}</ref> ]]

The oath signified for the first time that French citizens formally stood in opposition to Louis XVI. The National Assembly's refusal to back down forced the king to make concessions. It was foreshadowed by and drew considerably from the 1776 [[United States Declaration of Independence]], especially the preamble.{{cn|date=May 2021}} The oath inspired a wide variety of revolutionary activities in the months afterwards, ranging from rioting in the French countryside to renewed calls for a written constitution. It reinforced the Assembly's strength, and although the king attempted to thwart its effect, Louis was forced to relent, and on 27 June 1789 he formally requested that voting occur based on head counts, not on each estates' power.<ref>{{cite book |last1= Hanson |first1= Paul R. |title= Historical dictionary of the French Revolution |url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio0ed2hans |url-access= registration |date=2015 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9780810878914 |page=[https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio0ed2hans/page/118 118] |edition= Second}}</ref> 

The Tennis Court Oath preceded the [[Storming of the Bastille]] in July, the [[abolition of feudalism in France|abolition of feudalism]] in August, and the [[Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen]] on 26 August. The members of the  [[National Constituent Assembly (France)|National Constituent Assembly]] became increasingly divided. The [[French Constitution of 1791]] redefined the organization of the French government, taxation system, [[Census suffrage|male census suffrage]] and the limits to the powers of government.

Following the 100 year celebration of the oath in 1889, what had been the Royal Tennis Court was again forgotten and deteriorated. Prior to World War II, there was a plan to convert it into a table tennis room for Senate administrators at the Palace. In 1989 the bicentenary of the French Revolution was an opportunity to restore the tennis court.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/estate/royal-tennis-court|title=The Royal Tennis Court|access-date=2021-06-21}}</ref>[[File:Galerie de la Salle du Jeu de Paume de Versailles.jpg|thumb|In the western gallery of the Salle du Jeu de Paume, reproductions of the engravings are on display.]]{{clear}}