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May 5, 1789 meeting with the Estates-General
The Estates-General met in Versailles on May 5, 1789, marking the beginning of the French Revolution. The meeting was attended by 1,200 deputies from all over France, representing the three estates of pre-revolutionary France: the clergy, nobility, and commons. -
Tennis Court Oath
It was a ball game played with a racket or the player's bare hands… Find out more was played. It was here that they made the famous Oath of the Real Tennis Room: “We swear never to separate and to meet wherever circumstances require until the kingdom's Constitution is established and grounded on solid foundations.”