What is the connection between the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower?
The Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower, these two symbols of respectively the American and the French peoples, were in fact both made in France.
The Statue of Liberty (its French name is “Liberty Enlightening the World”) was a gift from the French people commemorating the alliance of and the during the American Revolution.
In a ceremony held in Paris on July 4, 1884, the completed Statue of Liberty was formally presented to the U.S. ambassador and then shipped to New York City.
The idea for the statue belonged to the French historian and abolitionist Édouard de Laboulaye and was implemented by the sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi.
Its steel framework was built by Gustav Eiffel, the French civil engineer renowned for the construction of the Eiffel tower.
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