When the French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904) sailed into New York Harbor just before dawn on June 21, 1871, he was seized by a “marvelous feeling of movement, animation.” ...

The Statue of Liberty has long stood as a beacon of freedom and democracy, a gift from France to the United States ... Paris ...

His wife, Pat, and the Statue of Liberty ... to France, where sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi's masterpiece was crafted as a goodwill gift to the United States in 1886. A native of Colmar ...

PARIS (AP) — Hey, America: Give the Statue of Liberty back to France. So says a French politician who is making headlines in his country for suggesting that the U.S. is no longer worthy of the ...