The Tennis Court Oath (David) – pre-Romantic, near-unanimous, almost totally middle-class and with no popular violence – above all was considered the forerunner of the 1789 revolution and also showed that national sovereignty was made up of each individual's personal will. David's painting also portrays the monk Dom Gerle alongside the Protestant pastor Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Étienne, symbolising a new era of religious tolerance. The wind blowing through the windows and billowing the curtains also symbolises the wind of Revolution blowing through France. The first engravings showing "The Tennis Court Oath" only appeared in 1790, the year David convinced the Jacobin Club to launch a national
Oriel Square tennis court Oriel Square tennis court The Oriel Square tennis court was a real tennis court that was located in Oriel Square, central Oxford, England. The "Liber Albus" mentions the Oriel court being in Vinehall Lane in 1577. The only active court left in the city is in Merton Street. Charles I played tennis here with his nephew Prince Rupert in December 1642 and King Edward VII had his first tennis lesson here in 1859. The court survived until 1923, when it was used as a lecture hall by Oriel College, though it may have seen earlier use as a theatre. The