Statue of Liberty Replica

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.

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By Jason Coleman

Structural engineer and technical content manager Bentley Systems by day. Geeky father and husband all the rest of time.

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