What is the Statue of Liberty known for?

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Mid 19th Century Turmoil:

The Statue of Liberty was conceived by French abolitionist Édouard René de Laboulaye and French artist Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi in the mid-nineteenth century. During this time, the United States was emerging from its bloody Civil War that brought about the abolition of slavery. In France, the Second French Empire of the last French Monarch Napoleon III had just come to an end as France was moving back toward republican governance.

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