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As soon as, through the movement of those forces tending towards rupture, revolution appears as something possible, with a possibility that is not abstract, but historically and concretely determined, then in those moments revolution has taken place. The only mode in which revolution is present is that of its real possibility. At that moment, there is a stop, a suspension. In this stop, society falls apart completely. The law collapses: for an instant there is innocence; history is interrupted.

Walter Benjamin:

The conscious desire to break the continuity of history belongs to
the revolutionary classes in the moment of action. It is just such a
consciousness that expresses itself in the July revolution. During the
evening of the first day of the struggle, simultaneously but as a
result of separate initiatives, in several places people fired on the
clocks in the towers of Paris.

—Maurice Blanchot