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In 1871, Bartholdi was
commissioned by Edouard de Laboulaye to sculpt the goddess Liberty;
Laboulaye planned to give it to the United States to commemorate the
historic relations between the two nations at the time of America’s
centennial anniversary of independence. One of the great fund-raising
events in the pains to build the Statue of Liberty was its kick-off
banquet given on Saturday, November 6, 1875, by the Franco-American Union |
