A French politician is in the limelight for his recent and rather controversial statement. He has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty, presented by the French people as a gift in 1884.

France’s self-professed last sculpture foundry has weighed into a row over whether the US should return the Statue of Liberty to its country of origin by proposing to build a new one out of ...

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A French politician has called on the US to give the Statue of Liberty back after suggesting that some Americans “have chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants.” Raphael Glucksmann ...

The United States has firmly rejected a suggestion by French politician Raphael Glucksmann that the Statue of Liberty should be returned to France, dismissing his remarks as unwarranted and ...

French leader Raphaël Glucksmann demands US to give Statue of Liberty back to France. French are not speaking German right now because... With a chuckle, Leavitt dismissed the suggestion that the ...

The statue was first proposed all the way back in 1865, when a French political intellectual and anti-slavery activist named Edouard de Laboulaye suggested it be created to mark the centennial of ...

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 ...

On Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked in her press briefing whether Trump would send the 225-ton statue back as suggested. “Absolutely not,” she said.

Or sign-in if you have an account. The Statue of Liberty — a gift from France to the United States to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — has now become a ...