Why did the French give us the Statue of Liberty?
Dear Amber: France gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States in recognition of their friendship, which developed following the American Revolutionary War. According to www.americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/sl/history/liberty.html , Edouard Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye, a French intellectual in the 1860s, had the idea to give the Americans a “memorial to independence.” Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi designed the statue, and Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel designed the statue’s skeletal framework.
Dear Amber: France gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States in recognition of their friendship, which developed following the American Revolutionary War. According to www.americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/sl/history/liberty.html, Edouard Rene Lefebvre de Laboulaye, a French intellectual in the 1860s, had the idea to give the Americans a “memorial to independence.” Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi designed the statue, and Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel designed the statue’s skeletal framework.
