-offer all French wines at special Happy Hour pricing all night
-sing La Marseillaise every hour, on the hour
-show Jerry Lewis movies all night (he was one of the 7 prisoners freed during the storming of the infamous prison)
-host a spelling bee of French wine words (and yes, proper use of accents is necessary)
-build papier-mache replicas of the greatest mountain stages of the Tour de France
-the demands of the Third Estate (the citizenry) for more Riesling to be served with the daily ration of coq au vin (until this time, it was always just Bordeaux & Burgundy)
-the Tennis Court Oath in which 576 of the 577 delegates to the future National Assembly decided that the region of Alsace would only have Grand Cru vineyards ("let the Burgundians have their 1er cru vineyards, we only have Grand Cru sites!" the locals proclaimed)
-on July 15th, 1789, Louis XVI turned to an advisor and asked: "Is this a revolt?" The answer was somewhere along the lines of: "no, your majesty, everyone is just haphazardly queuing up for the new IPhone, which is equipped with a pocket guillotine."
-the publication of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen on August 26th, 1789. It decreed that Riesling consumption is a universal right, valid at all times and places and an integral part of human nature.
