US capital gets its own, petite Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty
Some 135 years after the arrival ofitsbig sister in New York, a relatively diminutive replicaStatueofLibertywas unveiled Wednesday in the US capital as a token of American-French friendship.
The replica, standing at around 10 feet (three meters) tall -- compared to the famed 300-foot-tall New York version -- was inaugurated by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and his US counterpart, Antony Blinken.
The bronzestatuewas erected in the garden of the residence of France's ambassador inWashington.
Onitsjourney from Paris, it travelled viaLibertyIsland, south of Manhattan, home of the iconic "LibertyEnlightening the World"statuepresented by France to the United States in the late 19th century.
"The little sister has arrived," said Philippe Etienne, France's envoy inWashington.
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"She spent a week in New York for the American national holiday -- Independence Day -- she was on Ellis Island, she looked at her big sister. And now she is in place for July 14," he added, referring to the French Bastille Day holiday.
On loan from France's National Conservatory of Arts and Trades (Cnam) and cast from the same mold used by sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, thestatuetravelled in a specially designed Plexiglas case in a container transported by French shipping company CMA-CGM.