BRITTANY | 🗽 🇺🇸 Statue of Liberty Gourin - Brittany 24 Television 🇨🇵

France - Gourin - Brittany / Over 300 donors generously participated in financing the 70k euros needed to caste a bronze statue of America’s greatest symbol of democracy, justice, freedom and friendship with France. A small resin Statue of Liberty had been given by Air France to the city in 1986. Last summer, a crowdfunding campaign on Kengo was launched to finance a new bronze version of Lady Liberty that would renew Gourin’s reputation as the American capital of Brittany. The Gourinoise statue is an identical reproduction of the Statue of Liberty from the Orsay Museum in Paris, m high. Gourin - Brittany - and the surrounding towns in the #Morbihan have a strong connection to the United States as the region was part of the largest story of emigration in Western France over the last 120 years. Over 100,000 Bretons from the area crossed the Atlantic in search of the America dream with numbers peaking between 1950-1960. The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture