Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty (41 page)

the great Exposition Universelle: Ibid.

“Mon brave”: Belot and Bermond,
Bartholdi
, p. 42.

“You, better than anyone”: Belot and Bermond,
Bartholdi,
p. 50.

“Exhibited a few days ago”: Théophile Gautier,
Correspondance générale
, vol. 1, ed. Claudine LaCoste-Veysseyre (Geneva: Libraire Droz, 1991), p. 171.

“In the Champ de Mars”: Paul Huot,
Des Vosges au Rhin, excursions et causeries alsaciennes
(Paris, 1866), p. 227.

Chapter 2

“photographic reproduction”: From the Archives Nationales (AN) F17, 2935/2, “De la vallée des Rois à l’Arabie heureuse Bartholdi en Égypte et au Yemen (1855–1856) on exhibit at Tour 46, espace d’exposition temporaire, rue de l’ancien Théâtre, Belfort, June 23, 2012, to September 24, 2012.

Charlotte noted in 1854: Belot and Bermond,
Bartholdi,
p. 58.

could be fixed in two minutes: John Hannavy, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography,
vol. 1 (New York: Routledge, 2007), p. 1030.

he kept a pet monkey: Albert Keim and Frederic Taber Cooper,
Gérôme
(New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1912), p. 28.

headed to Egypt to plan: Ferdinand de Lesseps,
The Suez Canal: Letters and Documents Descriptive of Its Rise and Progress, 1854–1856,
trans. N. D’Anves (London: Henry S. King, 1876), p. 194.

he could not travel through the city without: Charles Beatty,
De Lesseps of Suez: The Man and His Time
(New York: Harper & Row), p. 39.

“running around the walls”: Ibid.,
p. 37.

had sketched a plan for creating the Suez Canal: Bill Hendrick, Brian Rodahan, and Krystle Rogala, developers, “The Suez and Panama Canals and the Age of Empire,”
http://people.hofstra.edu/alan_j_singer/CoursePacks/TheSuezandPanamaCanalsandtheAgeofEmpireDBQ.pdf
.

“Mohammed-Said has already recognized”: Beatty,
De Lesseps of Suez,
p. 93.

“Happy epoch!”: Régis Hueber,
D’un Album de Voyage: Auguste Bartholdi en Egypt (1855–1856), Exposition Musée Bartholdi, 15 Juin–15 September 1990
(Colmar: Association Culture and Loisirs, 1990), p. 27.

“I’m close to looking like an Egyptian”: December 27, 1855, Institut néerlandais de Paris, Collection Frits Lugt, 9511 b; Belot and Bermond,
Bartholdi,
p. 66.

“I am enchanted to know”: Hueber,
D’un Album de Voyage
, p. 42.

“We were constantly mocking”: Ibid.

“Everything is fine except”: Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones and Mary Roberts, eds.,
Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture
(Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005), p. 53.

“What is absurd”: Ibid., p. 55.

“Egyptian art has been the object”: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi,
The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World
(New York: North American Review, 1885), p. 36.

“How adorable a thing”: Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, “Egypt’s Statue of Liberty,” in Hackforth-Jones and Roberts, eds.,
Edges of Empire,
p. 47.

“When I discover a subject grand enough”: Daniel J. Carden, “Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty,”
Undergraduate Review
12, no. 1 (2000): 24,
http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/rev/vol12/iss1
/5.

Chapter 3

“remarkable for their size and number”:
Galignani’s New Paris Guide for 1866
:
Compiled from the Best Authorities
, A. and W. Galignani & Co., (Paris: 1866), p. 14.

Homeowners were required: Ibid., p. 29.

“The northern boulevards”: Ibid., pp. 36–37.

“The military tendencies”: Ibid., p. 35.

“No detail is irrelevant”: Charles Bartholdi,
Curiosités d’Alsace
, vol. 1 (Colmar: Eugene Barth, 1862), p. 3.

“I have no name”: Belot and Bermond,
Bartholdi,
p. 112.

“To burn. Sad things”: Ibid.

“Why is it that this friendship”: “Foreign Correspondence,”
World
(New York), April 17, 1863, p. 6.

“No one in the United States”: Bartholdi,
The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World,
p. 13.

“without veiling the statue of liberty”: United States, Department of State,
Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Volume 9, Appendix to Diplomatic Correspondence of 1865, The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1866), p. 58.

must have cost eight hundred dollars or less: Shirley Samuels, ed.,
The Cambridge Companion to Abraham Lincoln
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), p. 177.

“The Emperor passes just now”: “The Paris Exposition,”
New York Times,
May 16, 1867.

The “dictatorial” statues: “The Paris Exhibition,”
New York Times,
June 18, 1867.

The Roches-Douvres iron lighthouse: “The Paris Exposition,”
New York Times,
May 16, 1867.

“The chief peculiarity”:
General Survey of the Exhibition; with a Report on the Character and Condition of the United States Section, Paris Universal Exposition, 1867
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1868), p. 201.

a mock temple: Jean-Marcel Humbert, Clifford Price, and Peter J. Ucko, eds.,
Imhotep Today: Encounters with Ancient Egypt
(London: Psychology Press, 2003), p. 127.

“The illustrious founder of Egyptology”: M. Auguste Mariette,
Description du Parc Égyptien
(Paris: Dentu, 1867) p. 100.

“They all look as if they had been hewn”: Howard Payson Arnold,
The Great Exhibition with Continental Sketches, Practical and Humorous
(New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1868), p. 299.

“the highest expressions of modern industry”: Hackforth-Jones and Roberts,
Edges of Empire,
p. 50.

On one wall hung a large painting: Ibid.,
p. 58.

Ismail the Magnificent was short, flabby: Beatty,
De Lesseps of Suez
, p. 225.

“Every man has a mania”: Edwin De Leon,
The Khedive’s Egypt, or The Old House of Bondage Under New Masters
(London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877), p. 175.

the khedive had claimed that if he were given authority: Ibid., p. 167.

“I will equally have the support”: Hackforth-Jones and Roberts,
Edges of Empire,
p. 58.

“And with a small salute”: Ibid., p. 60.

“At this moment I am with M. De Lesseps”: Ibid., p. 59.

“He has taught himself to sleep at any time”: “Count de Lesseps,”
Our Church Paper
15 (New Market, VA) (April 4, 1887): 4.

“It is unfortunate that with modern ideas” Hackforth-Jones and Roberts,
Edges of Empire
, p. 63.

a wedding planned but never a proposal: Provoyeur and Hargrove,
Liberty,
p. 41.

“influence and bribery”: Letter from Gustave Eiffel to his father, February 22, 1869, Eiffel coll., ARO 1981 1159 (3), Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

a 180-foot-tall white cement tower: “Items of News,”
The Architect and Contract Reporter: A Journal of Art, Civil Engineering and Building
2 (November 13, 1869): 248.

“There are two Alliance”: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain),
Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
57, ed. James Forrest (London: Published by the Institution, 1879), p. 100.

“People from Asia Minor, Ukrainians”: Beatty,
De Lesseps of Suez
, p. 253.

“Perhaps she would have been less comfortable”: Ibid., p. 252.

“Never in my life”: Ibid., p. 255.

In recognition of his work on the canal: Ibid., p. 260.

“The history of the world has reached”: Ibid., p. 257

Chapter 4

“in a very importunate manner”: Lucius Hudson Holt and Alexander Wheeler Chilton,
The History of Europe from 1862 to 1914
(New York: Macmillan, 1918), p. 136.

“The old King of Prussia”: John Bigelow,
Retrospection of an Active Life,
vol. 4,
1867–1871
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, 1913), p. 417.

“To Berlin! To Berlin!”: Ernest Alfred Vizetelly,
My Days of Adventure: The Fall of France, 1870–71
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1914), p. 22, http://www.
gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile
?fk_files=2311805&pageno=48.

Even Édouard Laboulaye endorsed: Bigelow,
Retrospection of an Active Life,
vol. 4, p. 412.

Bartholdi, at age thirty-six:
Galignani’s New Paris Guide for 1866,
p. 63.

artists rallied to such heroics: May McAuliffe,
Dawn of the Belle Epoch: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau and Their Friends
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), p. 12.

had his poor mother to worry over: Paul-Ernest Koenig, “Bartholdi et le Combat du Pont du Horbourg,” p. 51, archives, Musée Bartholdi, Colmar, France.

Bartholdi applied to go to the front: “France Sends Her Sons,”
New York World,
fultonhistory.com
: New York NY World 1886 a - 2255.pdf.

“My dear Eugénie”: Beatty,
De Lesseps of Suez
, pp. 266–67.

toward his own enterprises exclusively: “A Paris Fourth of July,”
Quartier Latin
3, no. 12 (July 1897): 391.

On September 10 the government: Extrait de la Revue Alsacienne de 1883, “L’entrée des Badois à Colmar le 14 Septembre 1870,” par F. Dinago, Paris, Berger-Levrault & Cie, editeurs de la revue Alsacienne, 5 Rue des Beaux-Arts, p. 40.