Statue of Liberty
Architectural
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Auguste Bartholdi's wife was the model for the 33m hight statue
Gustave Eiffel (architect of the Eiffel tower) helped with the metallic structure
also Ferdinand de Lesseps (architect of the Suez chanel)
the Statue was inaugurated in New York October 28 I886 (by President Cleveland)
have been participating in a nationwide collection
'La souscription des villes françaises pour la statue de la Liberté'
5 years were necessary to find the money to build the Statue
Statue of Liberty in Paris, 1886
under construction in Paris
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it was in the ateliers Gadget Gautier, 25 rue de Chazelles Paris I7e
that we statue was assembled over a period of nine years
it was possible to climb up the Statue still locatel in Paris
giving a notion of what a modest version of a view
over the city from the Eiffel Tower would be 3 years later
a legend says that even the already very old poet
Victor Hugo had been climbing up the statue
jan I885 the statue was disassembled
and in may I885 shipped in 2I4 giant boxes
from le Havre to New York
