What is the meaning of the expression her son's treason burned in her chest like a thousand flames

I am pretty sure this expression accumilates treason.

Explanation:

The definition of Treason- the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government:

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I think it means that the crimes the son did hurt his mother so much.

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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