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Marquis de Lafayette declared that as soon as he heard of American independence, his heart was enlisted in 1776. The monument was erected in 1876, and its inscription presents it as a remembrance from France to the City of New York of sympathy in time of trial, linking 1776 and 1876. The work was cast in 1873 by Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, dedicated in 1876, and restored in 1991 with funding from The Grand Marnier Foundation through the Adopt-A-Monument Program, sponsored by the Municipal Art Society, Art Commission, and Parks Department.
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