{"id":734577,"date":"2026-06-30T09:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/734577\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:44:12","slug":"france-to-illuminate-statue-of-liberty-for-us-250th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/734577\/","title":{"rendered":"France to illuminate Statue of Liberty for US 250th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">France will stage an elaborate light show at the Statue of Liberty to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, the French consulate said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Described as a &#8220;monumental artistic creation,&#8221; the show will be recorded in advance and broadcast by the ABC network at the start of its 25 hours of programming for Independence Day, July 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;The Statue of Liberty will be revealed to the public as it has never been seen before, in a staging designed to magnify its symbolic and emotional power,&#8221; the consulate said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Our friendship goes back 250 years, it is still very strong, it runs deep, and that is why we wanted to do something significant,&#8221; France&#8217;s consul to New York Cedrik Fouriscot told AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor was given to the United States by France in 1886, and is one of the country&#8217;s most famous monuments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">France also dispatched its air force acrobatics team to the United States this month to mark the 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On June 9, eight Alpha jets of the Patrouille de France filled the skies above Manhattan with the colors of the French tricolor &#8212; soaring above the iconic statue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">gw\/ksb\/js\/yad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France will stage an elaborate light show at the Statue of Liberty to mark the 250th anniversary of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[117286,23,313242,316157,3,316156,77571,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-734577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-250th-anniversary","tag-america","tag-american-independence","tag-french-consulate","tag-news","tag-patrouille-de-france","tag-statue-of-liberty","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}