Identifier: medievalmodernti01robi (find matches)
Title: Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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a National Assembly. Theya National argued that, since they represented at least ninety-six per centof the nation, the deputies of the privileged orders might beneglected altogether. This usurpation of power on the part ofthe third estate transformed the old feudal Estates, voting byorders, into the first modern national representative assemblyon the continent of Europe.The Tennis- Under the influence ofhis courtiers the king tried to restorethe old system by arranging a solemn joint session of the threeorders, at which he presided in person. He presented a longprogram of excellent reforms, and then bade the Estates sitapart, according to the old custom. But it was like bidding waterto run up hill. Three days before, when the commons had foundthemselves excluded from their regular place of meeting on ac-count of the preparations for the royal session, they had betakenthemselves to a neighboring building called the Tennis Court.Here, on June 20, they took the famous Tennis-Court oath,
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