A French politician facetiously asked the U.S. to return the Statue of Liberty, suggesting the country no longer lives up to the values the green-hued gift represents. Raphaël Glucksmann, a member of ...

The Statue of Liberty was a gift to the United States from the people of France to commemorate 100 years of Franco-American friendship. The statue also commemorates the centennial of America’s ...

Though the claim that Glucksmann said the U.S. should give the Statue of Liberty back to France is true, it does not appear that it was meant to be taken literally. In mid-March 2025, a claim spread ...

(WDBJ) - President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty in New York’s Harbor October 28, 1886. The monument was proposed by a French activist in the 1860s as a gift from the French people ...

Karoline Leavitt issued a fiery rebuke to a French politician calling for the Statue of Liberty to be returned, with the White House press secretary stating his country should be very grateful to the ...

A French politician is calling for the United States to give back the Statue of Liberty, saying that Americans “have chosen to switch to the side of tyrants.” Center-left politician Raphaël Glucksmann ...

According to legend, the Statue of Liberty came to sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi as a vision: sailing into New York Harbor in 1870, the French artist suddenly imaged the p ...

The Statue of Liberty, France's gift to the United States, was originally viewed as a tribute to the end of slavery. But poet Emma Lazarus reimagined Lady Liberty as a "mother of exiles," welcoming ...

A member of the European Parliament thinks the United States should return the Statue of Liberty to France. Raphael Glucksmann, a socialist and member of France’s left-wing Place Publique party, made ...

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