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
	..... ULAN Candidate

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-)