How a Locked Door Started the French Revolution
French Revolution

How a Locked Door Started the French Revolution

Locked out of their own meeting hall, the Third Estate crowded into a tennis court and laid the foundation of modern democracy.

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French Revolution18th CenturyConstitutional GovernmentPopular SovereigntyLouis XVIJean-Sylvain BaillyDemocratic RevolutionVersaillesEstates-GeneralPolitical Philosophy

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