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The Tennis Court Oath: Lead-Up To The French Revolution

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The Tennis Court Oath was important because it was the first step in the Third Estate of France forming an organized protest of the French government in the lead-up to the French Revolution. After arguments with the First and Second estates over their roles in the governing of France, a large group of members of the Third Estate met at a nearby tennis court and vowed to forge a new constitution that guaranteed more rights for commoners. The Committee ended up becoming the very thing that the French had been trying to get away from. The citizens that it was supposed to protect ended up being its biggest victims. People were killed for any complaint against the way the country was being run, whether it was something as simple as food prices
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