Desmoulins' renown as a radical pamphleteer was furthered by the publication, in September 1789, of his "Discours de la lanterne aux Parisiens," which featured as its epigraph a quotation from the Gospel of John: "Qui male agit odit lucem" ("He who does evil hates the light") This was understood to allude to the iron bracket of a lamppost at the corner of the Place de Grève and the Rue de la Vannerie, often used by rioters as a makeshift gallows for anti-revolutionaries and those accused of profiteering. A famous Revolutionary song, the "Ça ira" ("It shall be"), also immortalizes this lantern, in the lines, "Les aristocrates à la lanterne... Les aristocrates, on les pendra!" ("To the lantern with the aristocrats... The aristocrats, we'll hang them!")