Editing Victor Hugo (section)

===Exile===
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Hugo decided to live in exile after [[Napoleon III]]'s [[French coup d'état of 1851|coup d'état at the end of 1851]]. After leaving France, Hugo lived in Brussels briefly in 1851, and then moved to the [[Channel Islands]], first to Jersey (1852–1855) and then to the smaller island of Guernsey in 1855, where he stayed until Napoleon III's fall from power in 1870. Although Napoleon III proclaimed a general amnesty in 1859, under which Hugo could have safely returned to France, the author stayed in exile, only returning when Napoleon III was removed from power by the creation of the [[French Third Republic]] in 1870, as a result of the French defeat at the [[Battle of Sedan]] in the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. After the [[Siege of Paris (1870-71)|Siege of Paris]] from 1870 to 1871, Hugo lived again in Guernsey from 1872 to 1873, and then finally returned to France for the remainder of his life. In 1871, after the death of his son Charles, Hugo took custody of his grandchildren [[Jeanne Hugo|Jeanne]] and Georges-Victor.