Constructing the Statue of Liberty - in the middle of Paris - took 11 years and lots of Copper
In the early 1870s, inspired by the abolition of slavery and the Union victory in the American Civil War, French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi seized upon an idea. He would build a monumental gift for the United States, a gesture of friendship from a country that had helped secure its independence: the Statue of Liberty.
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