France has sent a new Statue of Liberty to the United States to celebrate Franco-American friendship. It will take nine days to cross the Atlantic. It will be inaugurated for the National Day of the United States on July 4th.
It is now done: to strengthen Franco-American friendship, France has just sent a new Statue of Liberty to the United States, 135 years after the inauguration in New York of Liberty Enlightening the World. According to the newspaper Ouest-France, the work all in bronze clad and measuring nearly three meters high left Le Havre (Seine-Maritime), towards New York. Sent by the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (Cnam), it will be installed in the immediate vicinity of the first statue, 93 meters high, for at least ten years.
This work had been installed on the forecourt of the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts for almost 11 years. The statue was unbolted on June 7. The work was to set sail for the United States on June 19. The Shipping Company – Compagnie générale maritime (CMA CGM Tosca), which wanted to organize a party for its departure, was forced to cancel.
The shipowner CMA-CGM, to whom the State has entrusted the task of transporting the statue to Ellis Island, has created a custom-made sarcophagus, protected by Plexiglass, to wrap the statue.
The statue should take nine days to cross the Atlantic. It will be inaugurated on July 4 on the occasion of the National Day. This second statue must “pay homage to all those who, on both sides of the Atlantic, made it possible to build the Statue of Liberty and who fought for what it symbolizes throughout the world”, explains the JDD.
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