The Most Sacred Duty

Three women forming a half-circle take a solemn oath over the top hat one of them is holding.

This illustration was published in Le Charivari on April 20, 1849. It is the first lithograph in a series of 10 titled Les femmes socialistes (another four might have been intended as part of the same series^[1]). Second state of two.

The caption reads in the original French: L’insurrection contre les maris est proclamé le plus saint des devoirs !