Dating the Nation.

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    • Subject Terms:
      FRANCE; EUROPE
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      Perhaps the most enduring legacy of the French Revolution has been, not liberty, nor equality, but fraternity — the bond that unites a population as citizens of the nation. It was for the patrie of citizens that so many oaths were sworn, starting with the celebrated Oath of the Tennis Court taken by the deputies in June of 1789, an oath that Jacques-Louis David later immortalized in his unfinished but detailed drawing of the scene. In this solemn enactment of a secular contract, the nation was born anew, and in its name, the revolution of progress was inaugurated in France and then exported to all the lands that the revolutionary, and later the Napoleonic, armies conquered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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