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
Tennis Court (song) the beat, and the lyrics were built on the instant music. According to Little, Lorde developed her songwriting skills on "Tennis Court", for which she wrote the melody and the whole chorus: On 7 June 2013, "Tennis Court" was released as "Pure Heroine" second single in Australia and New Zealand. On the same day, an extended play—"Tennis Court EP"—was released digitally in some European countries and physically (as a 10-inch vinyl) on 22 July. The single was released for digital download in Scandinavia on 12 August 2013, and a 7-inch vinyl was released in the US on 27 August 2013.