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Auguste Bartholdi. The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World
Culture · Saturday, September 19 · 09:30 · Paris
Musée d'Orsay, Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
Free
From 15 September 2026 to 31 January 2027, the Musée d’Orsay dedicates an exhibition as well as an immersive virtual reality experience to Auguste Bartholdi, a major figure of nineteenth-century French sculpture and author of iconic works, as well as to his masterpiece “La Liberté éclairant le monde”.\n\nDesigned as a gift from France to the United States and initially intended to commemorate the centennial of American independence in 1876, the statue was finally inaugurated ten years later, in 1886. In the meantime, Bartholdi and his supporters had to show imagination, audace et…
