Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Statue of Liberty on the Île aux Cygnes, River Seine in Paris.Given to the city in 1889, it faces southwest, downriver along the Seine. This statue was given in 1889 to France by U.S. citizens [4] living in Paris, only three years after the main statue in New York was inaugurated, to celebrate the centennial of the French Revolution.
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper -clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France , was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its ...
This file has been superseded by Head Statue of Liberty, Paris 1878.png. It is recommended to use the other file. It is recommended to use the other file. Please note that deleting superseded images requires consent .
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Since 2012, there has been a public workout space with bicycles and a climbing wall underneath the Pont de Grenelle, close to a Statue of Liberty replica. [1] The island is crossed by three bridges: the Pont de Grenelle, the Pont Rouelle and the Pont de Bir-Hakeim. It is served by the Passy and Bir-Hakeim Métro stations. Map of Île aux Cygnes
The top of the pedestal is occupied by a 9.5 m high statue of Marianne, symbolizing the Republic. She is represented standing, wearing a toga and a baldric on which is mounted a sword. She is dressed at the same time with a Phrygian cap, symbol of liberty and a plant crown. In her right hand, the statue bears an olive branch, a peace symbol.
It was rumored in France that the face of the Statue of Liberty was modeled after Bartholdi's mother. [12] The statue is 46 metres (151 ft), [13] and the top of the torch is at an elevation of 93 metres (305 ft) from mean low-water mark. [14] It was the largest work of its kind that had been completed up to that time. [3]
On 11 August 1792, the statue of Louis XV was pulled down and taken to a foundry, where it was melted down. A few months later, a new statue, "Liberty", by the sculptor François-Frédéric Lemot, took its place; it was a figure wearing a red liberty cap and holding a lance. The Place Louis XV ("Louis XV Square") became the Place de la ...