In a desperate move to find money in the face of an uproar across the country and to re-establish harmony, Louis XVI agreed to convene the Estates-General for May 1789. ... Three days later, the delegates took the famous Tennis Court Oath, vowing not to disband until France had a new constitution. ... Twenty-eight days later, the Assembly showed they did not intend to do so: the government confiscated all church property in France. ...

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