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    The Statue of Liberty
    The Statue of Liberty
    The Statue of Liberty
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    The Statue of Liberty

    By Barry Moreno

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    The Statue of Liberty is an awesome visual journey that begins with the fantastic proposal of a French professor to give the United States a monument to commemorate the Revolutionary War alliance between the thirteen colonies and France. It documents the gift's taking symbolic form of the ancient goddess of liberty and its designation as the tallest metal statue in the world. Highlights include Liberty's construction history, her changing symbolism over the years, and her use in popular advertising and political activism. Her upraised arm has saluted scores of ships as they have passed by. Her dignity has welcomed Americans returning home from foreign parts and has given hope to newcomers seeking a fresh beginning in the land of liberty.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateSep 18, 2012
    ISBN9781439632208
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      The Statue of Liberty - Barry Moreno

      INDEX

      INTRODUCTION

      The Images of America series would be quite incomplete without a book on the Statue of Liberty, for this monument is internationally recognized as the single most potent symbol of the American spirit of freedom and democracy. But unlike America’s many other symbols, such as the Stars and Stripes, the bald eagle, or Uncle Sam, Liberty was not a homegrown icon: the colossal sculpture was given to the United States as an anniversary present from the country’s oldest ally, France. Thus the story of Liberty’s origins and birth takes us to Paris, the city of light, in the year 1865, where the statue’s creator, Edouard de Laboulaye, was employed as a professor of legal history at one of the city’s greatest schools, the Collège de France. To a group of his political and intellectual friends, he suggested that the time had come for Frenchmen to remind the Americans of the special relationship that their respective nations had towards each other, a relationship that involved the American War of Independence, the Founding Fathers, and the Marquis de Lafayette. In addition, he wished to praise the United States as the repository of liberty in a world where most nations, including France, were still ruled by undemocratic governments.

      By 1871, following the collapse of authoritarian rule in France, Laboulaye was joined by the sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi in this scheme. The idea was to sculpt a monumental statue of Liberty and present it as a gift to the American people in honor of their first 100 years of independence. The form the statue would take was a simple one for Laboulaye and Bartholdi to select: it would simply be Libertas, the classical goddess of freedom, who was already a recognized symbol of the French Republic and had made her appearance for many years previously on French and American coinage. The goddess was an old one, dating back to ancient Rome, where she had been worshipped by the religious men and women of antiquity who had cherished freedom from slavery. The choice of a goddess to personify a nation’s spirit was part of the classical heritage of European civilization, and it demonstrated the efficacy of the beautiful forms and ideas of Roman art and philosophy in representing the genius of a modern nation. Great Britain’s powerful symbol Britannia grew out of this same tradition.

      This book tells the long story of the Statue of Liberty: the story of her creators Laboulaye and Bartholdi and their principal helpers, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and Gustave Eiffel in Paris and William Evarts and Richard Hunt in New York; the story of her unveiling in 1886; and the story of her service to the people of the United States unto this very day. The chapters lead the reader through Liberty’s many roles. She has been a symbol of Franco-American friendship, of American independence, and of freedom from slavery and tyranny. She has been the mother of exiles to immigrants and refugees. And she remains the ultimate patriotic symbol of the country, a universal symbol of freedom to all nations and all peoples.

      —Barry Moreno

      Staten Island

      August 2004

      One

      LIBERTAS

      THE FRANCO-SWISS LINCOLN MEDAL. Thanks to the donations of 40,000 French citizens, this gold medal was cast in Switzerland in 1865 as a memorial tribute to slain president Abraham Lincoln. It pays homage to Lincoln as an honest man who abolished slavery, re-established the Union and saved the republic, without veiling the statue of liberty. The coin was presented to the president’s widow, Mary Lincoln. After her death, their son, Robert Lincoln, donated it to the Library of Congress. (National Park Service.)

      EDOUARD RENE LEFEBVRE DE LABOULAYE. In 1865, Edouard de Laboulaye (1811–1883) dreamed up the idea of presenting a monumental gift to the United States in commemoration of its upcoming centenary of independence. At the time, Laboulaye was France’s leading expert on the United States and was also a great admirer of the country. He advocated democratic government in France at a time when the country was under the tight reins of Emperor Napoleon III. Laboulaye was a professor of constitutional law and history at the Collège de France in Paris, the city of his birth. (National Park Service.)

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