In 1883, it became the Museum of the French Revolution, including Luc-Olivier Merson’s monumental painting, The Tennis Court Oath, based on an unfinished 1791 work by Jacques-Louis David.

Lance Tingay in The Fireside Book of Tennis If the “Tennis Court Oath” of 1789 gave power to ... The imbalance of power between organizers and players led to two developments that slowly ...

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 ...

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 members assembled at a royal tennis court near Versailles and took the historic "Tennis Court Oath," triggering the French Revolution. The evolution of tennis continued through the 19th ...

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.