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 11. Where does the name "Liberty" comes from?
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 3As most Eiffel hackers know, Gustave Eiffel (for whom the language is
 4named), also built the metallic infrastructure of the Liberty Statue.
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 6More trivia:
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 8  Some people may also know that I (Cyril) happen to live very near to
 9  Belfort, a town renowned for a sculpture of a lion by Auguste
10  Bartholdi.  Bartholdi sculpted the metallic sheets that make the
11  Liberty Statue such an awesome sight.
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