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| Keywords: ParisGlorieDeLaRepubliqueFrancaise.jpg Paris statue of the Republic c 1890 Scanned from A Photographic Trip Around the World John W Illiff Co Chicago 1892 Copyright expired Original caption STATUE OF THE REPUBLIC PARIS FRANCE -- This national statue is made of bronze and was erected in 1883 The stone pedestal fifty feet in height is surrounded with seated bronze figures of Liberty Equality and Fraternity The statue thirty-two feet high to the top of the olive branch makes a striking and imposing appearance In front is a brazen lion with the urn of universal suffrage On the stone pedestal are hewn the words To the Glory of the Republic of France to the City of Paris 1883 This statue was the model for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor Notes Leopold Morice is the author of the Statue of the Republic Place de la République in Paris see http //books google fr/books id KYa4Xmcs8jEC pg PA66 lpg PA66 dq 22statue+of+the+republic 22+ 22leopold+morice 22 source bl ots WEx5FOo9KU sig CZdviFebiUyjq2fNqF_xRbbi6iw hl fr ei uvttSreyJp3SjAfEy9ypCw sa X oi book_result ct result resnum 2 here or http //books google fr/books id EvvmZwNbCJMC pg PA159 lpg PA159 dq 22statue+of+the+republic 22+ 22leopold+morice 22 source bl ots MBpk7rZNRO sig 8U-kb1rIRUg31sveutP_Qq1UgvY hl fr ei uvttSreyJp3SjAfEy9ypCw sa X oi book_result ct result resnum 1 there The original caption is mistaken in some details; this statue was not the model for Auguste Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty; the two have little in common other than a similar classical pose Besides Bartholdi has created the first terracotta model of his statue in 1870<ref>R Belot D Bermond Bartholdi Paris Perrin 2004 p 237 </ref> we can see http //www linternaute com/musee/diaporama/1/7342/musee-des-beaux-arts-de-lyon/5/35614/la-statue-de-la-liberte/7/lyon-69000/ it in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon in France Reference <references /> 48 52 2 4 N 2 21 46 9 E heading 70 PD-old General views of the Monument à la République Historical images of Monument à la République Statue of Liberty Monument to the Republic Statue of Equality Monument to the Republic Paris in the 1890s 19th-century photographs of Paris | ||||
