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VITET, LUDOVIC (1802-1873)

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VITET, LUDOVIC (1802-1873) , See also:French dramatist and politician, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 18th of See also:October 1802. He was educated at the 1 cote Normale. His politics were liberal, and he was a member of the society " Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera." On the See also:triumph of liberal principles in 183o See also:Guizot created an See also:office especially for Vitet, who became inspector-See also:general of See also:historical monuments. In 1834 he entered the Chamber of Deputies, and two years later was made a member of the See also:Council of See also:State. He was consistent in his monarchist principles, and abstained from taking any See also:part in politics during the second See also:empire. The disasters of 187o-71 reawakened Vitet's See also:interest in public affairs, and he published in the Revue See also:des deux mondes his optimistic " Lettres sur le See also:siege de Paris." He died in 1873. Vitet was the author of some valuable See also:works on the See also:history of See also:art, and his Monographic de l'Eglise Notre See also:Dame de See also:Noyon (1845) especially did much to awaken popular interest in See also:architecture. In the See also:early days of the Romantic See also:movement he wrote some vivid dramatic sketches of the See also:time of the See also:League. They are: See also:Les Barricades, scenes historiques (1826), Les Etats de See also:Blois, scenes (1827), and La Mort de See also:Henri III. (1829), all three being published together in 1844 with the See also:title of La Ligue. The best of these is the Etats de Blois, in which the See also:murder of the See also:duke of See also:Guise is described in the most convincing manner.

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