Liberty statue is one of the most famous monument in the world. But before beginning this titanic work on the Butte Montmartre in Paris, its sculptor, Frenchman Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, was first shaped a replica of 11.50 meters and 14 tons in 1885. The latter, placed at the downstream end of Swan Island at the height of the Grenelle Bridge, near where the workshop was held Bartholdi. Officially inaugurated on 15 November 1889, in the presence of its creator, before she was oriented in the opposite direction, so as not to turn its back on the Elysee, but Bartholdi asked specifically what the head instead to New York . Picture Liberty statue paris. Another replica exists in the Luxembourg Gardens offered by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi to the Musée du Luxembourg in 1900, then installed in the garden in 1906. This is the bronze model that served to make the statue in New York. Liberty statue 360 picture. His tablet bears the marking "15 November 1889 (when the reply above was inaugurated). Liberty statue paris quicktime vr
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