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'''Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye''' ({{IPA-fr|edwaʁ ʁəne ləfɛvʁ də labulɛ}}; 18 January 1811 – 25 May 1883) was a French [[jurist]], poet, author and [[abolitionism in France|anti-slavery]] activist. InAttentive 1865observer of the political life of the [[United States]] and admirer of the [[Constitution of the United States|American constitution]], he originated the idea of a monumentstatue presented by the French people to the United States that resulted in the [[Statue of Liberty]] in [[New York Harbor]]. He got the idea thinking that this would help strengthen their relationship with the United States.

Laboulaye was received at the bar in 1842, and was chosen professor of [[comparative law]] at the [[Collège de France]] in 1849. Following the [[Paris Commune]] of 1870, he was elected to the national assembly, representing the [[Seine (department)|departement of the Seine]]. As secretary of the committee of thirty on the constitution he was effective in combatting the Monarchists in establishing the [[French Third Republic|Third Republic]]. In 1875, he was elected a [[Senator for life (France)|life senator]], and in 1876 he was appointed administrator of the Collège de France, resuming his lectures on comparative legislation in 1877. Laboulaye was also chairman of the French Anti-Slavery Society<ref name="Khan" /> and president of the [[Société d'économie politique]].<ref name="MayeurCorbin1995">{{citation|last1=Mayeur|first1=Jean Marie|last2=Corbin|first2=Alain|last3=Schweitz|first3=Arlette|title=Les immortels du Sénat, 1875-1918: les cent seize inamovibles de la Troisième République|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5zkliher7YAC&pg=PA366|accessdate=2017-08-18|year=1995|publisher=Publications de la Sorbonne|isbn=978-2-85944-273-6|pagespage=366–366}}</ref>

Always a careful observer of the politics of the United States, and an admirer of its constitution, he wrote a three-volume work on the political history of the United States, and published it in Paris during the height of the politically repressed [[French Second Empire|Second Empire]]. During the [[American Civil War]], he was a zealous advocate of the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] cause and the [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolition of slavery]], publishing histories of the cultural connections of the two nations. At the war's conclusion in 1865, he became president of the French Emancipation Committee that aided newly freed slaves in the U.S.<ref name="Khan">Khan, Yasmin Sabina (2010) [https://books.google.com/books?id=9jknw1Av-R4C&pg=PA40&dq=Laboulaye+abolitionist&hlpg=en&ei=kd54TrSaHKjX0QXCns2bDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=Laboulaye%20abolitionist&f=falsePA40 Enlightening the world: the creation of the Statue of Liberty] p.40. Cornell University Press, 2010</ref> The same year he had the idea of presenting a statue representing [[Liberty (goddess)|liberty]] as a gift to the United States, a symbol for ideas suppressed by [[Napoleon III]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Story of American Freedom|last=Foner|first=Eric|publisher=W.W. Norton & Company|year=1998|isbn=0-393-31962-8|location=New York City|pages=115}}</ref> The sculptor [[Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi]], one of Laboulaye's friends, turned the idea into reality.

*{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/somerecollectionbige/ |title=Some Recollections of the Late Edouard Laboulaye |publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons |location=New York |author=[[John Bigelow]] |author-link=John Bigelow |year=1889 }}

*{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9jknw1Av-R4C&pg=PA40&dqq=Laboulaye+abolitionist&hlpg=en&ei=kd54TrSaHKjX0QXCns2bDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=Laboulaye%20abolitionist&f=falsePA40 |title=Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of Liberty |publisher=Cornell University Press |author=Yasmin Sabina Khan |year=2010 |page=40 |isbn=978-0-8014-4851-5}}

*{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/Laboulaye1884Bnf31065140g |title=Édouard Laboulaye: conférence faite à la Société du travail |language=French |publisher=Guillaumin |author=[[Frédéric Passy]] |author-link=Frédéric Passy |location=Paris |year=1884 }}

*{{cite book |chapter=Laboulaye, Édouard René de |url=https://archive.org/details/AppletonsCyclopediaOfAmericanBiographyVol.3 |title=Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography |volume=3 |publisher=D. Appleton & Co. |editor1=[[James Grant Wilson]] |editor-link=James Grant Wilson |editor2=[[John Fiske (philosopher)|editor2-link=John Fiske]] (philosopher) |year=1888 |pagepages=581-582581–582}}

*{{cite book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/dearoldstorytell00adamiala/page/124 |chapter=Édouard René de Laboulaye |title=Dear Old Story-teller |publisher=D. Lothrop Company |location=Boston |author=[[Oscar Fay Adams]] |author-link=Oscar Fay Adams |year=1889 |page=125 }} (short biography of life and works)

*{{cite web |url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/04/06/the-sly-modernity-of-edouard-laboulayes-fairy-tales/ |title=The Sly Modernity of Édouard Laboulaye’sLaboulaye's Fairy Tales |work=[[New York Review of Books]] |author=James Guida |date=April 6, April 2019 |accessdate=April 6, April 2019}}

* [http://www.lieder.net/lieder/l/laboulaye/ Lyric by Laboulaye]{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

* {{Gutenberg author |id=Laboulaye,+Édouard 4235| name=Édouard Laboulaye}}

* [http://nytravelguide.com/statue-of-liberty-laboulaye/ The Statue of Liberty Laboulaye brought to NYC] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200314050656/http://nytravelguide.com/statue-of-liberty-laboulaye/ |date=14 March 2020 }}