The Statue of Liberty | 6
American History Tellers
The Origin Story of Liberty and Lightning the World
A group of French intellectuals raised money to give a gold medallion to Abraham Lincoln's widow, our old friend, Mary Todd Lincoln. Frederick Agust Bartoldi was born in 1834; his mother wanted him to be a lawyer. His mom did move the family from Colmar, France, which is in the northeast corner,. It's kind of on the border of Germany and France and Switzerland’s in that areato Paris.
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