ID: 901000301 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000301	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Tennis Court Oath (French Revolution, Versailles, 1789)

Note: Public act of defiance by representatives of the nonprivileged classes of the French nation (the Third Estate) during the meeting of the Estates-General (traditional assembly) at the beginning of the French Revolution.

Display Date: 20 June 1789

Names:

	Tennis Court Oath (French Revolution, Versailles, 1789) (preferred,English-P,D,P)
	Serment du Jeu de Paume (French Revolution, Versailles, 1789) (French-P,D,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Named Events (P)
		....<European history> (P)
		........<French history> (P)
		............French Revolution (French history, 1787-1799) (P)
		................Tennis Court Oath (French Revolution, Versailles, 1789) (P)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... protest
	.....(declarations, declaratory documents, documents by function, document genres, information forms (objects), Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	role/characteristic is .... oath
	.....(testimonies, documents by function, document genres, information forms (objects), Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	located in .... Versailles
	.....(Île-de-France, France, Europe) (TGN)

Sources:

	Tennis Court Oath (French Revolution, Versailles, 1789)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	................Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
	Serment du Jeu de Paume (French Revolution, Versailles, 1789)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_Court_Oath#/media/File:Le_Serment_du_Jeu_de_paume.jpg
	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)