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Why did the french give us a lady on the statue of liberty?

April 26, 2017Arts French History Humanities lady liberty statue

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Why did the french give us a lady on the statue of liberty?

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In most languages, all nouns have genders. The word Liberty is always feminine, so it would have to be allegorically represented by a lady. The English language lost that feature many centuries ago. So to an English-only speaker, the feminine Liberty association is not immediately obvious. USA followed the established convention to represent Liberty by a female until 1909, when Congress decreed that the legally required image of “Liberty” on a 1 cent coin would be represented by Lincoln.