No doubt, the famous Tennis Court Oath of the French Revolution was of serious concern to those who took it. At Jarvis Field on spring afternoons one may hear shorter oaths relating to something ...

June 20th has been a date marked by remarkable moments throughout history, spanning politics, science, culture, and ...

The French Revolution, which began in 1789, distracted from the game, though one of the revolution’s founding moments, the Tennis Court Oath, took place in the tennis court at Versailles ...

The Jeu de Paume or Royal Tennis Court of Versailles, where the deputies of a newly formed National Assembly swore a revolutionary oath in 1789 to draft France’s first constitution, has been ...

Lance Tingay in The Fireside Book of Tennis If the “Tennis Court Oath” of 1789 gave power to the people, the creation of Open competition in 1968 gave power to the players. Tennis ...

What actually happened on the 20th of June 1789 at Versaille, the day of the Tennis Court Oath, a pivotal event in the French Revolution? Patrick Boucheron revisits important dates of history. Go to ...

with the Tennis Court Oath—the French never called it that, tennis. They called it jeu de paume, the “game of the palm,” or “handball,” if we want to be less awkwardly literal about it.

Drawing by Jacques-Louis David of the Tennis Court Oath. Wikimedia. Public domain.European modernity has been defined by the struggle of competing economic and political models, both within and ...