00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:34These French republicans wanted to express their support for the American republic
00:37in the hope that France might one day follow in its footsteps.
00:45We are truly on an exceptional scale because the cause being celebrated is considered exceptional.
00:51It is in fact unprecedented. Nothing this large had ever been done, even in antiquity.
00:56It is the ambition of a century in a way.
00:58The sculptor behind this farianic project is a Frenchman driven by the Republican ideal, Auguste.
01:05Bartholdi.
01:08We are looking at the oldest sketch for the Statue of Liberty.
01:12From the very beginning, he had the idea of a lighthouse.
01:17Building this 46-meter tall statue would prove to be a monumental challenge nearly impossible to meet.
01:25And Auguste Bartholdi would have to fight for over 15 years to see his dream become a reality.
01:31It is a project of insane audacity that could very well have failed.
01:35Most people thought what he wanted to do was impossible, that it was completely crazy, and yet he did it.
01:42The story of the Statue of Liberty is an epic that would span wars, coup d'etat, and an industrial
01:48revolution.
01:51And it reflects how the two great republics of the time, America and France, were built.
01:57The Statue of Liberty is an extremely powerful metaphor for what the United States can be, and what is worth
02:03fighting for.
02:06Through the accounts of Auguste Bartholdi, the adventure of the Statue of Liberty is revealed in all its artistic, technical,
02:12and political dimensions.
02:17Its history is that of the fight for the republic.
02:20This ideal of justice and equality, which, though often battered, has never been extinguished-changuished.
02:25This ideal of justice and equality, which, though, has never been extinguished in all the world, has never been extinguished
02:26in all the world, and has never been extinguished in all the world.
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