i think about how the july revolution started a lot nowadays. there's a quote from a newspaper that's slightly too big to include the context, from just before the people rose up against the king. while newspapers were being raided and the king and prime minister attempted a coup of parliament.
"France... falls back into revolution by the act of the government itself... the legal regime is now interrupted, that of force has begun... in the situation in which we are now placed obedience has ceased to be a duty... It is for France to judge how far its own resistance ought to extend."