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The names of the men who signe the oath were painted in a leafwork frieze around the room and 20 busts depicting the most eminent members of the Assembly were commissioned from contemporary sculptors. On the inside of the north gable end, a painting by Luc-Olivier Merson from 1883 was hung; it is a large-scale version of the drawing by Jacques-Louis David that was exhibited at the 1791 Salon and is conserved in the Palace of Versailles. On 20 June 1883, Jules Ferry, then President of the Council, opened the Museum of the French Revolution in the Real Tennis Court,