Oral D'anglais

The statue of liberty, located on Liberty Island in the south of Manhattan, has been for a long time the first picture which the immigrants had from New-York.

The statue of liberty which marked entrance of the harbour of New-York since 1886, is not only one the most famous monuments of the city but also a national emblem of the United States.

The project of a statue as a token of the French-American friendship, on the occasion of the centenary of the independence of the US in summer confided to the sculptor FREDERIC AUGUSTE BARTHOLI.

BARTHOLI dedicated more than 20 years of his life to the realization of the statue, who likes to erect as a hymn on freedom.

The building of this colossal statue began in 1875 in a Parisian workshop. Metallic internal structure was when to her built by GUSTAVE EIFFEL.

During its building until his taking down, the statue of liberty was the most visited monument in Paris.

It was then sent besides Atlantic and accepted a triumphal reception in New-York’s harbour on June 17th, 1885.

The statue of liberty represents a draped woman one toga and which throws out a torch of the right hand.

She is wearing one crown of whom the seven tops represents the seven continents.

In the left hand, it holds bars on which am inscribed in Roman numeral the date of the American Independence Day “July 4th, 1776”. In his foot broken chains which represent the abolition of slavery. The statue is 93 metre high in total for a weight of about 200 000Kg.

During its unveiling, the statue sported a red shade cover brown, owing to the copper which recuperated it however, the green of grey did not defer covering the statue one green blue patina.

In the past, it was possible to visit within the statue by taking up a spiral staircase, however since the murder attempts of September 11th 2001, access within am closed in the public but it is can always visit the museum and to go around it in ferryboat.

The statue of liberty is first of all groups of symbols: freedom, peace or justice.

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