Since my initial response to Stacie’s comment was getting a little long, I decided to post it here.
I think that it is a little odd, being an American, seeing the Statue of Liberty in a park in France. (There, of course, is an even larger one on the River just south of the Eiffel tower.) I suppose the French don’t think that, as they probably feel the connection to the statue. New Yorkers certainly think of it as a New York monument, not an American one. However, for both New Yorkers and Americans as a whole, the statue seems strange.
However, this particular statue seemed somehow in it’s place to me, as this whole garden contains statues from great French artists(and maybe other nationalities, I don’t know). It seemed to register immediately as to why I was looking at what would otherwise be a most out-of-place statue. On another note, I think seeing these keeps the differences between America, Americans, and the American government separate in the minds of Parisians. Maybe the statue reminds them why they liked us in the first place, just like all those streets named after America’s progressives and WWII leaders.