Paris, Statue of Liberty

On July 4, 1889 the American community in Paris offered the French people a gift of a bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty. It still stands now, on Allée des Cygnes, a man-made island in the Seine River, about a mile downstream from the Eiffel Tower

It is much smaller than the full-size version in New York Harbor. That Statue of Liberty was designed by the sculptor Frederic Bartholdi (born in Colmar, France), and was a gift from the French to the American people to honor the 1876 centennial celebration. The inside framework of our Statue of Liberty was designed by the engineer, Gustave Eiffel.

(Trivia: My Grandmother was born in 1876, and her middle name was Centennial.)