Overview

● Innovation, Solving Problems, & New Ways ⚡ Building & Protecting Women in Power ● Although after Victoria Taft and Marian Taft - Distantly, historically Lydia Taft was the 1st woman voter in the USA in the 1700s. Many roads are named after the Tafts and naturally drawn to American/DC origins. Victoria adds culture and a film history, french element with Debauns. Symbolism: The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. Detail, "Liberty Leading the People", Delacroix, 1830, oil on canvas, 260 x 325cm, Louvre. Beautiful detail of Liberty leading the charge, grasping the tricolour in one hand and holding a rifle in the other. She wears the Phrygian cap of the Jacobins as she leads the Trois Glorieuses, the Second French Revolution.