On the morning of June 20th 1789, a group of Third Estate representative were shocked to discover that the doors to the Parliment were barred and guarded by the Royal Soldiers under the instruction of King Louis XVI who was afraid of a royal coup. In protest the group consisting of 576 members from the Third Estate led by Mirabeau then congregated near an indoor tennis court where they took the solem oath of "never to separate, and to meet wherever circumstances demand, until the constitution of the kingdom is established and affirmed on solid foundations". This latter became the famous oath that was known at the 'Tennis Court Oath" which lead to the French Revolution in the subsequent years that saw both King Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinnette and so many members of the First Estate or blue blood clan send to the guillotin in the wake of people protest against the fuedal system.
Why am I writing this piece of history fact. Well if you change the tennis court to mango tree, National Assembly to DUN Perak and the Royal guard to FRU doesn't it sound a little bit familiar.
(Although the part about leading the revolution is still relatively unknown and God forbid if Malaysia ever see the distruction that happen during the French Revolution that killed so many people no matter on which side they stand on).It seems like a 200 year history repeating itself in another part of the world. But just like what George Bernard Shaw once said "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history"
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