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Bartholdi and Laboulaye
Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples.
Given the repressive nature of the regime of Napoleon III, Bartholdi took no immediate action on the idea except to discuss it with Laboulaye.
As Bartholdi had been planning a trip to the United States, he and Laboulaye decided the time was right to discuss the idea with influential Americans.
In June 1871, Bartholdi crossed the Atlantic, with letters of introduction signed by Laboulaye.
However, Bartholdi and Laboulaye avoided an image of revolutionary liberty such as that depicted in Eugène Delacroix's famed Liberty Leading the People ( 1830 ).
Among its members were Laboulaye, Paul de Rémusat, William Waddington, Henri Martin, Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Oscar Gilbert Lafayette, and Bartholdi.
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Delacroix's figure wears a pileus, and Bartholdi at first considered placing one on his figure as well.
Bartholdi considered having Liberty hold a broken chain, but decided this would be too divisive in the days after the Civil War.
Bartholdi and best
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (; 2 August 1834, Colmar, Haut-Rhin – 4 October 1904 ) was a French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty.
* Frédéric Bartholdi ( 1834-1904 ), a sculptor best known for the Statue of Liberty
Bartholdi and idea
The sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, one of Laboulaye's friends, turned the idea into reality.
Bartholdi and American
The son of a friend of Bartholdi's, American artist John La Farge, later maintained that Bartholdi made the first sketches for the statue during his U. S. visit at La Farge's Rhode Island studio.
Bartholdi and liberty
Though Bartholdi greatly admired the United States Constitution, he chose to inscribe " JULY IV MDCCLXXVI " on the tablet, thus associating the date of the country's Declaration of Independence with the concept of liberty.
Bartholdi and .
* 1834 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, designed the Statue of Liberty ( d. 1904 )
* Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886.
In 1881 Eiffel was contacted by Auguste Bartholdi who was in need of an engineer to help him to realise the Statue of Liberty.
The Statue of Liberty ( Liberty Enlightening the World ; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde ) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886.
Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.
According to sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi, who later recounted the story, Laboulaye's comment was not intended as a proposal, but it inspired Bartholdi.
Bartholdi was in any event busy with other possible projects ; in the late 1860s, he approached Ismail Pasha, Khedive of Egypt, with a plan to build a huge lighthouse in the form of an ancient Egyptian female fellah or peasant, robed and holding a torch aloft, at the northern entrance to the Suez Canal in Port Said.
Any large project was further delayed by the Franco-Prussian War, in which Bartholdi served as a major of militia.
Arriving at New York Harbor, Bartholdi focused on Bedloe's Island as a site for the statue, struck by the fact that vessels arriving in New York had to sail past it.
" As well as meeting many influential New Yorkers, Bartholdi visited President Ulysses S. Grant, who assured him that it would not be difficult to obtain the site for the statue.
Bartholdi crossed the United States twice by rail, and met many Americans whom he felt would be sympathetic to the project.
Bartholdi had made a first model of his concept in 1870.
Bartholdi continued to develop the concept following his return to France.
The defiant lion, long and half that in height, displays an emotional quality characteristic of Romanticism, which Bartholdi would later bring to the Statue of Liberty.
Instead of the impression of violence in the Delacroix work, Bartholdi wished to give the statue a peaceful appearance and chose a torch, representing progress, for the figure to hold.
Laboulaye and American
In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in the American Civil War, is supposed to have said: " If a monument should rise in the United States, as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort — a common work of both our nations.
Laboulaye and .
In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the Americans provide the pedestal and the site.
The origin of the Statue of Liberty project is sometimes traced to a comment made by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye in mid-1865.
It was thus, as he put it in a letter to Laboulaye: " land common to all the states.
But he remained concerned that popular opinion on both sides of the Atlantic was insufficiently supportive of the proposal, and he and Laboulaye decided to wait before mounting a public campaign.
Laboulaye had no sympathy for revolution, and so Bartholdi's figure would be fully dressed in flowing robes.
Growing interest in the upcoming Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia led Laboulaye to decide it was time to seek public support.
French monarchists opposed the statue, if for no other reason than it was proposed by the liberal Laboulaye, who had recently been elected a senator for life.
Laboulaye arranged events designed to appeal to the rich and powerful, including a special performance at the Paris Opera on April 25, 1876, that featured a new cantata by composer Charles Gounod.
Soon after the establishment of the French Third Republic, the project of building some suitable memorial to show the fraternal feeling existing between the republics of the United States and France was suggested, and in 1874 the Union Franco-Americaine ( Franco-American Union ) was established by Edouard de Laboulaye.
In 1879 he became assistant to the jurist Édouard René de Laboulaye at the Collège de France, and succeeded him in 1884 in the chair of comparative legislation.
Such writers and jurists as Mittermaier, Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, Édouard René de Laboulaye, Joseph Story and James Kent, recognized in him a kindred mind.
* Stanislas Lefebvre de Laboulaye ( b. 1946 ), Lebanese ambassador
Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye () ( January 18, 1811 in Paris-May 25, 1883 in Paris ) was a French jurist, poet, author and anti-slavery activist.
Laboulaye was received at the bar in 1842, and was chosen professor of comparative law at the Collège de France in 1849.
Laboulaye was also chairman of the French Anti-Slavery Society.
Laboulaye, _Córdoba, city named in his honour.
Laboulaye wrote poetry in his spare time.
Laboulaye published many books.
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