Before leaving the U.S., Martha had purchased our tickets for the Eiffel Tower with reservations for the 1 p.m. tour. I would HIGHLY recommend purchasing tickets ahead of time as the people in line at the Eiffel tower waiting to buy tickets were waiting well over 3 hours to get in. We just whizzed past them and flashed our pre-printed tickets and got right in. It felt so good, like we were royalty.
The trip up to the Eiffel Tower was exhilarating and the views were awesome, but my photos of the day are of the little known monuments in Paris... the Statue of Liberty, and the Flame of Liberty. This Statue of Liberty is an exact replica was offered to the French by the American residents of Paris to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution. Originally it faced the Eiffel Tower, but its creator, Bartholdi, insisted that it should face New York and was consequently turned to face America.
The Flame of Liberty is a full-sized replica of the new flame carried in the hand of the Statue of Liberty at the entrance of New York harbor. It was a gift to the city of Paris in 1989 by the International Herald in honor of its one hundredth anniversary of publishing an English-language daily newspaper in Paris and is a lasting symbol of the friendship between our two countries, just as the Statue of Liberty was when it was given to America by France.
An interesting fact about this flame is that it is directly above the tunnel in which Princess Diana died in 1997 and has therefore become an unofficial memorial to Diana. Most people who come here think that it was built for her.
The trip up to the Eiffel Tower was exhilarating and the views were awesome, but my photos of the day are of the little known monuments in Paris... the Statue of Liberty, and the Flame of Liberty. This Statue of Liberty is an exact replica was offered to the French by the American residents of Paris to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution. Originally it faced the Eiffel Tower, but its creator, Bartholdi, insisted that it should face New York and was consequently turned to face America.
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| View of the Statue of Liberty on Swan Ally, Paris, in the Seine river as taken from the top of the Eiffel Tower. |
The Flame of Liberty is a full-sized replica of the new flame carried in the hand of the Statue of Liberty at the entrance of New York harbor. It was a gift to the city of Paris in 1989 by the International Herald in honor of its one hundredth anniversary of publishing an English-language daily newspaper in Paris and is a lasting symbol of the friendship between our two countries, just as the Statue of Liberty was when it was given to America by France.
An interesting fact about this flame is that it is directly above the tunnel in which Princess Diana died in 1997 and has therefore become an unofficial memorial to Diana. Most people who come here think that it was built for her.
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| "The Flame of Liberty" The inscription on the monument reads: "The Flame of Liberty. An exact replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame offered to the people of France by donors throughout the world as a symbol of the Franc-American friendship. On the occasion of the centennial of the International Herald Tribune. Paris 1887-1987." |
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