Flame of Freedom
The Flamme of Freedom is a monument offered to the France by the the United States in 1989, in thanks for the restoration of the Statue of Freedom.
This memorial is the reproduction of the torch held by the statue of the Freedom (or Freedom illuminant the world ) carried out by Bartholdi, architect and sculptor French, and located on Liberty Island, with the entry of the port of New York. It was offered to France by the United States in thanks of the repairing of the statue by Métalliers Champenois, thanks to funds raised by a subscription of the New York Herald Tribune which gathered 400.000 dollars.
The monument, which represents a flame of Cuivre gilded, was inaugurated in 1989 by Jacques Chirac, then mayor of Paris. It profited from a rebirth in 1997 at the time of the death of Lady Diana, princess of Wales, victim of an accident in the tunnel of the Pont of Alma, located below the Flame of Freedom.
The morning of the advertisement of died of Lady Di, the monument was covered with Fleur S and since then, from the admirors come to take photographs memories, to deposit sheaves, to write Graffiti or to request, transforming the flame into monument with the memory of Diana.
The Place of Alma, where the Flame of Freedom is set up, was to be famous “place Maria Callas” a few days after the accident which cost the life the princess of Wales. The tragedy led the authorities to give up this project.
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