“My only ambition has been to engrave my name at the feet of great men and in the service of grand ideas,” wrote Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi circa 1880. New York Public Library Archives. (Public Domain) Today Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi is most known for one colossal work of sculpture that he…

A replica of the Statue of Liberty, which’s being called the “little sister”, now sits in a lush garden in Washington, arriving in time for France’s Bastille Day celebration on July 14. The statue was unveiled Wednesday at The Embassy of France in the United States. The bronze beauty is smaller but based on the…

PARIS—A scaled-down replica of the Statue of Liberty began its trip from France to the United States on the back of a flat-bed truck on Monday, retracing the journey made over a century ago by its big sister, which now looks out over New York Harbor. The replica, which stands at 2.83 meters (9.3 ft)…