Excerpt from Life of Victor Hugo Politics; his royalist tendencies soon wane; approves of the Revolution of 1830; an opportunist republican in 1848; the Revolution; elected to the Assemblee Con stituante June 4th his views at the time; Louis Napoleon elected President; Victor Hugo elected member of the Assemblee Legislative, June, 1849; becomes an extreme Radical glittering but violent speeches a prison scene the Coup j'etat, December 2, 1851 Hugo takes a promi nent part in opposing it he is driven into exile arrives in Brussels, December 14, 1851 130. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.