Victor Hugo Against Napoleon III

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Victor Hugo, Napoleon III, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 19th century, Romantic Authors, French Republic, Second Republic, Second Empire, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, coup d'état, December 2 1851, December 4 1851, Châtiments, Hauteville House, Guernsey, Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, army debauchery, idleness, revolutionary armies, year II, monarchy cult, individual freedoms suppression, human rights violation, political intrigues, power maintenance, people's control, satirical poems, pathetic register, Letter of Protest, Committee of Resistance, proscribed, French citizens, patriotism, Thiers, Bonaparte, jester, funny, Event journal, Victor Hugo sons, campaign, massacres, innocents, expansion wars, suffocating people, assassinating Assembly, Democracy, metaphors, irony, Napoleon the Little, pamphlet, patrimoine de France, Nadaux Marc, Esnault Michel, Cau Jean-Claude, Anovi, 19e.org, multimania.fr, free.fr

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Victor Hugo's criticism of Napoleon III's actions and decisions, including his wars of expansion and suppression of individual freedoms.

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[...] The principles of the regime that was to be established after these events were submitted on the following 21 December to a new plebiscite. It was a new triumph for the Prince-President, who thus consolidated his position. The new constitution was then promulgated on 14 January 1852. Written in haste, this text, which praises in its preamble the work of the Emperor of the French, is only an imitation of the Constitution of the Year VIII. From now on, the legislative power will be subject to a strong executive power in the hands of the President. [...]

[...] Victory They've killed, Tiquetonne intersection, seven-year-old child [ . ] Your fathers fought the most proud armies, [...]

[...] After what he did on December 2nd, he was entitled to better than that. Really, who would have quibbled? Who stopped him from putting eight million, ten million, a round number? As for me, I was disappointed in my expectations. I was counting on unanimity. Coup d'État, you are modest. [ . ] In truth, two million five hundred thousand mouths said no Who said that the savages of the South Sea called the French the yes-yes? Let's talk seriously. [...]

[...] Up to the atrocity of the act. The text is dense, filled with contained emotions, suggestive, it's only stronger. « CHÂTIMENTS, II "The memory of the night of The child had received two bullets in the head. The house was clean, humble, peaceful, honest ; One could see a blessed branch on a portrait. An old grandmother was there who was crying. We undressed him in silence. His mouth, Pale, it opened; death drowned his fierce eye; His hanging arms seemed to be asking for support. [...]

[...] (Things Seen, December 1850) III.2. The works of Paris or how to appease the people? Boulevard Haussmann At the time of Napoleon III, a Parisian agglomeration is born: in 1836, it has 1 million inhabitants million in million in million inhabitants in 1904. Now, urban problems become those of society as a whole. In Paris, as elsewhere abroad, this migratory movement, of unknown scope until now, is not without arousing fears: the new arrivals are often poor and they settle where the rents are lowest, which leads to the pauperization of entire zones in Paris or in the suburbs. [...]

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