Tennis Court Oath Tennis Court Oath On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath (), vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established". It was a pivotal event in the French Revolution. The Estates-General had been called to address the country's fiscal and agricultural crisis, but immediately after convening in May 1789, they had become bogged down in issues of representation—particularly, whether they would vote by head (which would increase the power of the Third Estate,
Revolution of the Mind: Live at the Apollo, Volume III Revolution of the Mind: Live at the Apollo, Volume III Revolution of the Mind: Live at the Apollo, Volume III is a live double album by James Brown released in 1971. As its subtitle suggests, it is Brown's third album recorded at the Apollo Theater, following the original "Live at the Apollo" (1963) and "Live at the Apollo, Volume II" (1968). After a triple album project recorded in France was cancelled because Brown had signed with a new label, Polydor , in 1971, Brown elected to do many of the same songs on a New York project . Unlike the