France is sending Lady Liberty’s ‘little sister’ to NYC for July 4
Picture courtesy of CMA CGM Team
France is sending a mini edition of the Statue of Liberty to the United States this month, 136 years immediately after the legendary sculpture was unveiled on Liberty Island. The Embassy of France in the U.S., the Conservatoire nationwide des arts et métiers, and shipping company CMA CGM Group announced very last 7 days that a replica of Woman Liberty will established sail from Paris on a 9-day journey across the Atlantic, arriving in New York City in time for the Fourth of July.
Photo courtesy of CMA CGM Team
The Statue of Liberty’s “little sister” weighs 1,000 pounds and is nine feet tall. Created as a reproduction of Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi’s initial 1878 plaster design, the sibling statue has stood at the entrance of the Musée des Arts et Métiers (the Museum of Arts and Crafts) in Paris for the past 10 several years.
Final 7 days, the smaller sibling was placed in a specific plexiglass situation and set into a transport container. On June 19, the statue will board a shipping and delivery vessel in Le Havre and travel for 9 times by sea just before reaching New York. According to a press release, the replica will be on show on Ellis Island from July 1 to July 5, “joining its full-scale sibling to rejoice Independence Day.”
CEVA Logistics, a subsidiary of the CMA CGM Team, will then transport the statue by road to the French Ambassador’s Home in Washington, D.C., unveiled in honor of Bastille Day on July 14. The replica will keep on being there for 10 decades.
“The arrival of the new Lady Liberty statue will rejoice the most central value of the French-American partnership: freedom,” reads a push release from CMA CGM Group. “The technological, inventive, and logistics issues to convey this new statue to The united states inform a modern day tale of productive worldwide cooperation.”
Beginning June 20, the statue’s voyage throughout the Atlantic can be followed on the net in this article and by next #ViveLaLiberty on social media platforms.
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