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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 ...
True Light on the Statue of Liberty and Her Creator. Moreno, Barry (2000). The Statue of Liberty Encyclopedia. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-86227-1. New York Public Library. Liberty: the French-American statue in art and history (Harper & Row, 1986). Price, Willadene. Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty (Rand McNally, 1959).
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The sculpture is similar to Liberty Enlightening the World, commonly known as the Statue of Liberty. [28] At the time of the French Revolution, as the most common of people were fighting for their rights, it seemed fitting to name the Republic after the most common of French women's names: Marie and Anne.
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), a colossal sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, underwent an extensive conservation-restoration between 1984 and 1986, in advance of its centennial. The statue, designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, is part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument.
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The Statue of Liberty superimposed on a map of Macedonia by the Macedonian Patriotic Organization. After its unveiling in 1886, the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, quickly became iconic, and began to be featured on posters, postcards, pictures and books.