 Hugo, who had originally supported Louis Napoleon but had been infuriated by the coup d'état, departed Paris for Brussels by train on 11 December 1851.He became the most bitter critic of Louis Napoleon, rejected the amnesty offered him, and did not return to France for twenty years.Louis Napoleon's goal was to move from despotism to parliamentary government without a revolution, but instead he was a moderate increasingly trapped between the royalist and radical extremes.