France plans to send a smaller sister statue of the female figure representing the Statue of Liberty to the United States. The bronze statue, measuring between two and three meters in height, is set to arrive in the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C., where it will be placed in the garden of the French ambassador's residence. The statue began its journey on Monday from its previous location in front of the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Paris.
The Mayor of the Paris region, Ariel Weil, expressed his wishes for the statue's safe journey and noted on Twitter that this is "a new sign of friendship" with the United States. It is worth mentioning that the original Statue of Liberty is located in New York Harbor on Ellis Island and is considered a symbol of freedom. The French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed the female figure of the Statue of Liberty, which bears the signature of the engineer Gustave Eiffel, who built his famous tower a few years later in Paris.
France presented the statue to the United States in 1876 to commemorate the centennial of its independence from Britain. The smaller sister statue is now set to be displayed on Ellis Island in celebration of American Independence Day on July 4, after which it will be transported to Washington, D.C.
