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Victor Hugo's years of political exile, which shaped his later funeral wishes, began after he opposed which 1851 event in France?

Answer

Napoleon III's coup d'état

Hugo publicly denounced Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's 1851 coup, which led to his exile from France for nearly two decades before he returned in 1870.

💡 Did you know?

Victor Hugo's corpse was paraded through Paris in a pauper's funeral procession—a deliberate honor, since he'd requested no state ceremony while exiled.

Other options people guess

  • The Franco-Prussian War
  • The Paris Commune uprising
  • The French Revolution of 1848

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  • exile
  • french-history
  • poets
  • 19th-century

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