This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Forgotten Frenchman Behind Liberty Statue’s Birth
Edouard de Laboulaye inspired the Statue of Liberty idea during a 1865 Paris retreat and funded Franco American efforts. His vision helped Bartholdi and others pursue a joint statue project. Laboulaye died in 1883 before America’s gift was completed, while ambassadors and presidents carried the legacy forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty Island
N. Y
Edouard de Laboulaye
Glatigny
United States
Jefferson
Franklin
America
Laboulaye
Executive Mansion
A. Lincoln
France
Lauboulaye
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
Lafayette
Rochambeau
Bartoldi
Friends of Glatigny
Alsace
Germany
New World
New York
Bartholdi
San Francisco
White House
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nahant
Mass
Bedloe’s Island
New York Harbor
de Tocqueville
Marshal MacMahon
Gounod
Lady Liberty
Washington
Congress
Cornwallis
Yorktown
U. S
Levi P. Morton
Miss Liberty
Gustave Eiffel
Paris
Morton
Cleveland
Ambasador Morton
Pere Lachaise