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Six years later, construction was underway. Between 1881 and 1884, the statue was finished and assembled in Paris. Meanwhile over in the United States, the pedestal was being built in 1884.

Welp, nearly 140 years after gifting the Statue of Liberty to the United States, a French politician said we ought to give it back. Peter Adams / Getty Images Yes, MEP and president of a left-wing ...

Leeuw said that revealing the work on the 4th of July was also intentional, as the Statue of Liberty was a birthday gift from France to the United States on July 4, 1884, as a way to celebrate the ...

For more than 100 days, this America has self-deported from defending liberty, democracy, national security and free speech, tarnishing the image of the Statue of Liberty lighting the way to freedom.

Hey, America: Give the Statue of Liberty back to France. So says a French politician who is making headlines in his country for suggesting that the U.S. is no longer worthy of the monument, which ...

6. This America, faithful to the wonderful words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, your America, is worth so much more than the betrayal of Ukraine and Europe, xenophobia, or obscurantism.

Can France claim it back? Dream on. UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural arm that has the statue on its list of World Heritage treasures, notes that the iconic monument is U.S. government property.

France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the U.S. after the Civil War, and it has become a renowned symbol of democracy and freedom. "'We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it.