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There was the Pantheon,
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where the State commemorated its heroes,
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and there was Notre Dame, which he hated as well.
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And, so, he once wrote that
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love can lead you to hate
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he wrote that before he was guillotined, and he hated;
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he loved humanity in the abstract.
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He loved his mom too.
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But he loved humanity and he hated the State,
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and so he set out to kill.
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So, these are sort of visual signifiers,
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I guess in the new cultural history they would call them,