{"id":14717,"date":"2010-08-04T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=14717"},"modified":"2010-08-04T00:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T04:00:20","slug":"french-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/08\/04\/french-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"French Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/tenniscourtoath1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14719\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/tenniscourtoath1.jpg\" alt=\"tenniscourtoath\" width=\"448\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/tenniscourtoath1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/08\/tenniscourtoath1-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sketch by <a title=\"Jacques-Louis David\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques-Louis_David\">Jacques-Louis David<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tennis_Court_Oath\" target=\"_blank\">Tennis Court Oath<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On this date in 1789 members of the revolutionary <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Constituent_Assembly\" target=\"_blank\">National Constituent Assembly<\/a> took an oath to ban feudalism and abandon their privileges.<\/p>\n<p>Frye in &#8220;The Question of &#8216;Success'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the prominent figures in the French Revolution was asked what he did, what he achieved in the French Revolution, and he said: &#8220;J&#8217;ai serv\u00e9cu&#8221; &#8212; I survived. (<em>CW<\/em> 7, 300)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sketch by Jacques-Louis David of the Tennis Court Oath. On this date in 1789 members of the revolutionary National Constituent Assembly took an oath to ban feudalism and abandon their privileges. 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