Convention center

Convention centers typically offer sufficient floor area to accommodate several thousand attendees.

Originally a hall in a castle would be designed to allow a large group of lords, knights and government officials to attend important meetings with the king.

These administrative actions would be done in the great hall and would exhibit the wisdom of the king as judge to the general populace.

King Louis XVI locked a group known as the Third Estate out of the meeting hall in Versailles.

This was the first modern democratic conference center and lead to the Tennis Court Oath[5] and the French Revolution.