3-039-178 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Civil War in France: impressment in the streets of Paris for the army of the Commune, 1871. 'Illustration of the press-gang. Men are compelled by force, in the name of "Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity," to undergo this sort of thing for a mischievous madness - "liberty" to destroy "equality" in misery, and the "fraternity" of Cain to Abel'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.