No Exit Lesson Plan

Discuss the significance of the room being designed in "Second Empire" style. (You will need to do some light, online research for this question.)

For a brief primer on the Second Empire, check Gradesaver's article, No Exit and the Legacy of the Second Empire. As mentioned in this article, the Second Empire began after Napoleon Bonaparte's reign and ended with the Franco-Prussian War. Sartre, and his collective of Left Bank intellectuals, saw the Second Empire's legacy as the primary cause of France's conservative policies and culture, and they believed the veneer of professionalism and decorum that marked the Second Empire and obfuscated its failures had continued...