The Statue of Liberty on Île aux Cygnes is one of the models used to build New York's version, now standing a quarter the size of its famous sibling at the end of a narrow island in the Seine. French expats in America gifted this bronze replica to Paris in 1889, the same year the Eiffel Tower went up for the World's Fair. It faces west toward America, as if keeping an eye on the original.

Gustave Eiffel had a hand in both statues. He engineered the internal iron structure that holds up New York's copper sheets, working in his workshop just outside Paris. The connection runs deeper: this replica occupies the same city where Bartholdi sculpted Liberty's face and where the whole project began as a French gift to mark American independence.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours use the statue to reveal the French origins of American icons, tracing Eiffel's fingerprints across Paris and explaining how a monument built in workshops near the Seine became a symbol of New York harbour.