what was the origin of the liberty statue?
The idea of a monument presented by the French people to the United States was first proposed by Édouard René de Laboulaye. The project is traced to a mid-1865 conversation between Laboulaye, a staunch abolitionist, and Frédéric Bartholdi, a sculptor.
Statue of Liberty
According to the National Park Service, the idea of a monument presented by the French people to the United States was first proposed by Édouard René de Laboulaye, president of the French Anti-Slavery Society and a prominent and important political thinker of his time. The project is traced to a mid-1865 conversation between Laboulaye, a staunch abolitionist, and Frédéric Bartholdi, a sculptor. In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in the American Civil War, is supposed to have said: "If a monument should rise in the United States, as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort—a common work of both our nations." 
how was the statue of liberty brought to the us On June 17, 1885, a French steamer arrived in New York with the crates holding the disassembled statue on board. who designed it? Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi what does it symbolise? Liberty has this designer done any other work? Yes - Statues at Clermont-Ferrand; he sculpted a bronze memorial of Jean Rapp who is this person of the bronze memorial? A French Army officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
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Statue of Liberty [SEP] Origin
According to the National Park Service, the idea of a monument presented by the French people to the United States was first proposed by Édouard René de Laboulaye, president of the French Anti-Slavery Society and a prominent and important political thinker of his time. The project is traced to a mid-1865 conversation between Laboulaye, a staunch abolitionist, and Frédéric Bartholdi, a sculptor. In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in the American Civil War, is supposed to have said: "If a monument should rise in the United States, as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort—a common work of both our nations." The National Park Service, in a 2000 report, however, deemed this a legend traced to an 1885 fundraising pamphlet, and that the statue was most likely conceived in 1870.