frlit1-6, Exercise 3: Hugo's exile

Model answer:

Hugo opposed the coup of 1851 by which Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte made himself emperor, and went into exile on the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey for about eighteen years, writing some of his greatest work. He returned after the fall of the Second Empire in 1870 and was given a state funeral in 1885. It matters because he chose exile over silence and used his fame as a writer to oppose a ruler, which is a central example of the writer as public conscience that Chapter 10 follows.

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