"Based on a two-part international conference, held in Washington (June 30-July 2, 1986) and Paris (October 22-23, 1986) on the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of the gift from France to the United States of the Statue of Liberty. The conference ... was co-sponsored by the West European Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Comité officiel franco-américain pour la célébration du centenaire de la statue de la liberté"--P. ix.