Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty (42 page)

“general agent for the center of France”: Julien Sée,
Guerre de 1870: Journal d’un habitant de Colmar (juillet à novembre 1870), et d’autres annexes
(Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1884), p. 113.

When he came back out: Extrait de la Revue Alsacienne de 1883, “L’entrée des Badois à Colmar le 14 Septembre 1870,” p. 40.

They began to drive them past Horbourg: Charles Eugene Rudolphe Kaeppelin,
Alsace Throughout the Ages
(Franklin, PA: C. Miller, 1908), p. 202.

heard the tumult and surged toward the barracks: Sée,
Guerre de 1870,
pp. 125–27.

eighteen new cannons: Bartholdi’s notes for his memoir, Musée Bartholdi, Fonds Bartholdi Guerre 1870–71, Inv. 1999/8/10.

“I get lunch at half past twelve”: Belot and Bermond,
Bartholdi,
p. 150.

“I am very grateful, sir”: Sée,
Guerre de 1870
, pp. 125–27.

“From the popular and absolute point”: Koenig, “Bartholdi et le Combat du Pont de Horbourg,” p. 54.

As for Paris, the Prussian forces: “The Siege of Paris,”
New York Times,
October 5, 1870.

“Alluding in after days”: Vizetelly,
My Days of Adventure.

Two days after his departure: Ibid.,
p. 58.

“It is maybe not good”: Letter to his mother, October 2, 1870, archives of Musée Bartholdi, Colmar, France.

“I regret, here as in Paris”: Letter to his mother, March 23, 1869, archives of Musée Bartholdi, Colmar, France.

“religion in general”: Bartholdi military diary, archives of Musée Bartholdi, Colmar, France

“I count on you”: Dole, October 14, 1870, archives of Musée Bartholdi, Colmar, France.

“The journals say there is”: “The War,”
New York Times,
October 8, 1870.

ten thousand Italian volunteers: Ibid.

“That banner of stars”: Melville De Lancey Landon,
The Franco-Prussian War in a Nutshell
(New York: G. W. Carleton, 1871), p. 265.

“There is a lack of nerve”: Belot and Bermond,
Bartholdi,
p. 160.

On December 11, newspapers: “Europe,”
New York Times,
December 14, 1870.

“the only Government which can prevent France”: Giuseppe Garibaldi,
Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi: Supplement,
authorized translation by A. Werner, vol. 3 (London: Walter Smith & Innes, 1889), p. 417.

left the hall in disgust: Ibid., p. 421.

“Emotional farewell”: Belot and Bermond,
Bartholdi,
p. 163.

“Three weeks since”: Garibaldi,
Autobiography,
p. 421.

Chapter 5

“Life is tiresome here”: Provoyeur and Hargrove,
Liberty,
p. 57.

Laboulaye too had suffered: Walter D. Gray,
Interpreting American Democracy in France: The Career of Edouard Laboulaye, 1883
(Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1994), p. 31.

employ every wile to escape a wild mob: “Foreign,”
Daily Alta California,
May 29, 1870, p. 5.

“I have conceived a profound hatred”: John Bigelow,
Some Recollections of the Late Edouard Laboulaye,
printed privately, p. 66, letter, Laboulaye to Bigelow, Glatigny, Versailles, July 28, 1871.

“By way of a rest”: Letter of May 8, 1871, p. 527.

“I have reread and am still rereading”: Gray,
Interpreting American Democracy in France,
p. 129.

As the month of May wore on: McAuliffe,
Dawn of the Belle Epoch,
p. 2.

As the battle raged on, the Communards killed: Ibid., p. 3.

“I saw Paris burning”: Vizetelly,
My Days of Adventure.

In retreat, Lisbonne’s men blew up: P. Lissagary,
History of the Paris Commune,
trans. Eleanor Marx Aveling,
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/36043
/ 36043-h/36043-h.htm.

“The whole of the evening”: M. A. Belloc and M. Shedlock, comp. and trans.,
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt: With Letters and Leaves from Their Journals,
vol. 2 (London: William Heinemann, 1895), p. 158.

“Saw . . . the poor city”: Bartholdi diary, May 27,1871, NYPL.

“Messieurs Lafayette, Henri Martin,”: Bartholdi,
The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World,
p. 16.

“Go to see that country”: Ibid.,
pp. 16–17.

“At Point-du-Jour—Ruins”: Bartholdi diary, May 30, 1871, NYPL.

“Poor Paris!”: Bartholdi diary, May 31, 1871, NYPL.

“As I pass over places where I saw deep trenches”: William Gibson,
Paris During the Commune
(London: Methodist Book Room, 1895), p. 304.

Chapter 6

“We are now opposite the grand banks”: Letter of F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, June 17, 1871, Bartholdi papers, NYPL.

“We watch the land disappear!!”: Bartholdi, diary, June 10, 1871, NYPL.

“Do not isolate yourself too much”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, June 17, 1871, NYPL.

“I fell asleep one night near the shore”: Victor Hugo, “Stella,” author translation, in consultation with Susannah Hunnewell Weiss.

Bartholdi underscored: “‘Liberty’ in Bronze,”
Erie County Independent
(Hamburg, NY), 1885, [page number not visible],
fultonhistory.com
: Hamburg NY Erie County Independent 1885–1888 Grayscale - 0496.pdf.

“The daylight had become strong”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, June 24, 1871, NYPL.

“[I]t was necessary at the outset to Americanize”: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, “The Statue of Liberty,”
New-York Daily Tribune,
May 31, 1885, p. 4.

“It is time for me to go to seek my fortune”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, July 2, 1871, NYPL.

“In spite of the dominating”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, June 24, 1871, NYPL.

“I hurry out to get a first glimpse”: Bartholdi diary, June 21, 1871, NYPL.

“Went to Staten Island”: Bartholdi diary, June 22, 1871, NYPL.

committee seeking to establish: “Metropolitan Art Museum,”
New York Times,
March 15, 1871.

By his joking account: Belot and Bermond,
Bartholdi
, p. 257.

“[Mr. Butler] is very much taken”: Bartholdi diary, July 25, 1871, NYPL.

“They are rather delighted”: Bartholdi diary, July 29, 1871, NYPL.

“I greatly admire the institutions”: Christian Blanchet and Bertrand Dard,
Statue of Liberty: The First Hundred Years
, trans. Bernard A. Weisberger (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1985), p. 36.

“whistle through their noses”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, October 3, 1871, NYPL.

“I passed the evening”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, July 21, 1871, NYPL.

“There are drawbacks”: F. Auguste Bartholdi letter to Charlotte Bartholdi, July 2, 1871, NYPL.

“crazy statuary”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, July 4, 1871, NYPL.

“I was in [Sumner’s] company”: Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, “The Statue of Liberty,”
New-York Daily Tribune
, May 31, 1885, p. 4.

“gentleman paring his corns”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, July 24, 1871.

“great deal of green corn”: Bartholdi diary, July 3, 1871, NYPL.

“honesty at the polls”: Bartholdi diary, July 8, 1871, NYPL.

“He showed me”: F. Auguste Bartholdi letter to Charlotte Bartholdi, August 1, 1871, NYPL
fultonhistory.com
: New York NY World 1866a-2255.pdf.

“received me as if”: Bartholdi, “The Statue of Liberty.”

“has a plan for creating a bronze colossus”: John Mulligan, “Frenchman Who Inspired Statue of Liberty Never Saw America,” Associated Press,
Leader-Herald
(Gloversville-Johnstown, NY), July 1, 1968, p. 18.

“with a hundred cages”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, July 2, 1871, NYPL.

for winning two French provinces: “The Bartholdi Statue: A Frenchman’s View of the Situation,”
American Architect and Building News
16 (1884): 22.

“I went to see President Grant”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, July 21, 1871, NYPL.

“I show him my project”: Bartholdi diary, July 18, 1871, NYPL.

“Today, after having done some work”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, July 21, 1871, NYPL.

“for the sake of the illusion”: Ibid.

“Nowhere are there bigger hoopskirts”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, August 1, 1871, NYPL.

“in his opinion it might level him”: Royal Cortissoz,
John La Farge: A Memoir and Study
(Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1911), p. 155.

“a little boastful, pleased with himself”: Belot and Bermond,
Bartholdi,
p. 260.

Bartholdi decided to set off by train: Provoyeur and Hargrove,
Liberty,
p. 37.

“marvelous and startling”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, August 16, 1871, NYPL.

“Chicago is perhaps”: Ibid.

“At the beginning of the mountains”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, August 22, 1871, NYPL.

men driving an enormous snowplow: Provoyeur and Hargrove,
Liberty,
p. 37.

“We reached the passages”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, August 29, 1871, NYPL.

“strolled about a little too late”: Bartholdi diary, August 20, 1871, NYPL.

“city still consists of wooden houses”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, August 22, 1871, NYPL.

“Decidedly, he makes too much fuss”: Bartholdi diary, August 23, 1871, NYPL.

“astonishingly immoral”: Bartholdi diary, August 27, 1871, NYPL.

“Yesterday I went”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, August 29, 1871, NYPL.

“We arrived by night”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, September 8, 1871, NYPL.

“Indians, with red-painted faces”: Ibid.

“the skeletons of old hoop-skirts”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, August 22, 1871, NYPL.