Tennis Court Oath Quotes

Where then shall hope and fear their objects find? The harbor cold to the mating ships, And you have lost as you stand by the balcony With the forest of the sea calm and gray beneath. A strong impression torn from the descending light But night is guilty. You knew the shadow In the trunk was raving But as you keep growing hungry you forget. The distant box is open. A sound of grain Poured over the floor in some eagerness--we Rise with the night let out of the box of wind.

The Unknown Travelers Lugged to the gray arbor, I have climbed this snow-stone on my face, My stick, but what, snapped the avalanche The air filled with slowly falling rocks Breathed in deeply--arrived, The white room, a table covered With a towel, mug of ice--fear Among the legs of a chair, the ashman, Purple and gray she starts upright in her chair.

Fearing that the king would try to quash their decisions, the deputies held an emergency session in the only building they could find that was large enough to accommodate them, the king’s indoor tennis court. There, they swore the dramatic “Oath of the Tennis Court,” pledging not to cease meeting until they had given France a new constitution.