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Baby Liberty Goes Abroad (Video)
Baby Liberty, the 9.3-foot, 1/16-size little sister of the Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island in New York Harbor, left her childhood home in the courtyard in front of France's National Museum of Technology, the Musée des Arts et Métiers, in Paris, on June 7 to embark on a journey to the United States.
Statue of Liberty Given Place of Honor in the Orsay Museum
Joining Whistler’s Mother, Van Gogh’s Self-portrait, Degas’s ballerinas, and many more, the Musée d’Orsay took on another familiar face this month when Liberty was given place of honor on a pedestal near the entrance to the museum’s great nave. The Orsay Museum had long claimed that Liberty rightfully belonged within its walls rather than in the Luxembourg Garden, where it previously stood.
Statues of Liberty in Paris, and to the Republics for Which They Stand
July 4. France Revisited celebrates the Fourth of July with a photo reportage of the major Statues of Liberty in Paris, along with the author's homegrown version.