A French Parliament member is demanding that the U.S. return the Statue of Liberty to France, who gifted the statue to America in the 1880s.

he began designing what was then called "Liberty Enlightening the World." Six years later, construction was underway. Between 1881 and 1884, the statue was finished and assembled in Paris.

Across French media and among the public, criticism of the US under President Donald Trump have grown sharper, so much so that some people in Paris are cheering on calls for Washington to return the ...

The 151-foot statue was assembled in France by 1884 and presented to the U.S. minister to France that same year. Then came the challenge of actually bringing it stateside. Bartholdi had selected ...

The iconic copper-clad sculpture was created by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and currently sits on Liberty Island in New York Harbor. There is a replica of the statue in the Seine River in Paris.