It's floored by a pasture of lush green grass that could almost be used as a tennis court.
St James's Park was transformed from marshy land into a deer park, bowling green and tennis court by Henry VIII., extended and laid out as a pleasure garden by Charles II., and rearranged according to the designs of John Nash in 1827-1829.
Elected deputy from Paris to the states-general, he was chosen president of the Third Estate (May 5, 1789), led the famous proceedings in the Tennis Court (June 20), and acted as mayor of Paris (July 15, 1789, to November 16, 1791).
Half a century after his death De Thou mentions that the house in which he was born had become a tavern and then a tennis-court.
With a solitary exception they swore and the Oath of the Tennis Court became an era in French history.
