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119:. With a few friends, he founded the society "Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera" (Help yourself, Heaven will help you) in order to support the Liberals in the elections of 1827. The society's efforts to increase voter registration for the opposition contributed to the defeat of the ultra-royalists in the election. Vitet unsuccessfully requested a prefecture from the
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Ludovic Vitet had married CĂ©cile Perier (1814 – 1858), the daughter of
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131:. The report submitted by Vitet in 1831 at the end of his first tour in the north of France shows that he was in charge not only of monuments but also of museums, libraries, archives and schools of artistic education. This report was soon used by
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Vitet's prominence as a politician and bureaucrat emerged. He presented himself unsuccessfully to the
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