Statue of Liberty

The bronze Statue of Liberty on the Île aux Cygnes stands one fourth the size of its famous sister in New York Harbor. It faces west toward the Atlantic, a gift from the American community in Paris to the city for the centennial of the French Revolution in eighteen eighty-nine. When sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi finished the full-scale statue for America, he provided this smaller version to Paris, cementing the cross-Atlantic exchange of ideas that fueled both republics at the time.