User:Icelantic
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The tennis court oath is a pledge of the people in the National Assembly. It was made on June 20, 1789, on a tennis court. This event made the third estate known as the National Assembly. When the Prime Minister proposed a reform to the system, making the votes by people instead of different estates having more power. The third estate then went to go to their chamber and discuss how they can get it through, but when the people came to go to their chamber, it was locked and they could not get to it. This enraged the people. Their only right, their only say, was taken away from them there and then. They could have gotten all of the power they could possibly need, and it was shattered in front of them then and there. So, they went to a tennis court, and swore to stay assembled until they had a constitution, had it signed, and meeting when they had to. Only one person did not agree to it. The sign of uniting together brought the National Assembly together and helped with the French Revolution greatly.
On July 13, 1793 Jean-Paul Marat, was murdered by Charlotte Corday. Charlotte was very mad at the words that Marat gave out to the public in his newspapers. Marat would post a wanted list in his newspaper, and all of the people would be murdered from the guillotine. So, to get herself in his home, she lied and said that she had a list of people that were against the National Army. That’s not what she had, though. In her hand was a knife, and when she did go to visit him, she stabbed him over and over. On her trial she said “I killed one man to save one hundred thousand”. Once she died, Marat had taken over much of the church as a “holy man” and replaced many crosses and other sacred items. The people just simply could not believe that he was murdered.
