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Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo was a French poet, novelist and dramatist, a leading figure of Romanticism and author of Notre-Dame de Paris and Les Misérables. An opponent of Napoleon III's coup of 1851, he went into exile, living in Jersey from 1852 until his expulsion in 1855 and then in Guernsey until 1870. He returned to France after the fall of the Second Empire and was buried in the Panthéon.
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