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Also Known As	Serment du Jeu de Paume
Date	June 20, 1789
Context	French Revolution

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France constitution

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Tennis Court Oath

June 20, 1789

Civil Constitution of the Clergy

July 12, 1790

French Revolutionary wars

April 1792 - c. 1801

September Massacres

September 2, 1792 - September 6, 1792

Wars of the Vendée

February 1793 - July 1796

Pierre-Antoine Demachy: Une Exécution capitale, place de la Révolution

Reign of Terror

September 5, 1793 - July 27, 1794

Thermidorian Reaction

July 27, 1794

Coup of 18 Fructidor

September 4, 1797

Coup of 18–19 Brumaire

November 9, 1799 - November 10, 1799

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Jean-Sylvain Bailly

French astronomer

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