224 FORUM Feminist Journalism on Work, War, and Women’s Rights in the Third Republic Popular Legal Journalism in the Writings of Maria Vérone Sara L. Kimble, DePaul University In 1932, the French League for Women’s Rights (Ligue française pour le droit des femmes or LFDF) sold an unusual example of feminist humor, a board game titled “The Game of the Luxembourg Geese.” This game was created in response to the French Senate’s unwillingness to pass a women’s suffrage bill. The game featured a design reminiscent of traditional French board games with spiraling, numbered steps from the start to the finish. The objective of the game, however, was anything but ordinary. The player was instructed not to stop on the pieces celebrating the achievements of Frenchwomen because “they do not count” while simultaneously playing to defend “the republic from the Church and ‘birth hysteria.’” 1 A statement by Victor Hugo appears in the center of the game in which he condemned the inequities faced by women who “do not count” as citizens, and called for equal rights. 2 Lawyer and feminist activist Maria Vérone’s likeness was prominently displayed on the last game piece where she was quoted: “Long live the republic all the same!” a protest she shouted in the Luxembourg Palace after the senators defeated women’s suffrage in a vote of 158 to 134. 3 In 1 Advertisement on the back cover of Le Droit des femmes, September-October 1932. Game instructions in Alban Jacquemart, “Les hommes dans les mouvements féministes français (1870-2010). Sociologie d’un engagement improbable” (Ph.D. dissertation, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2011), 95. 2 Hugo’s statement originally appeared in a letter to Léon Richer. Quoted in Joyce Elizbeth Dixon-Fyle, Female Writers Struggle for Rights and Education for Women in France (1848-1871) (New York: Peter Lang, 2006), 139. 3 The origins of this particular protest, now associated with the French Resistance, are a bit unclear. One earlier use was by Jérôme Napoléon, cousin to Napoléon