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Jeanne d'Arc - Monument aux morts

Joan of Arc - War memorial

Saint Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc), The Maid of Orléans (ca. 1412 - 1431)
national heroine of France, beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. She led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War
(Wikipedia)

Guillaume Meyer
1922

Murbach / Jeanne d'Arc - Monument aux morts

Description

Stone statue of Jeanne d'Arc as a virgin warrior in armour, standing with her right hand resting on a shield with her coat of arms and with her left hand she holds a standard.

Inscription(s)

a la memoire
des enfants de
MURBACH
tombes pendant
la guerre
1914-1918

with lists of the names of the victims of 1914-1918.

Promesse au S^t corneille
de la commune de Murbach

Annotation

The municipality had promised to build a chapel for Saint-Cornelius if they were not bombed during world war I. They were not bombed, but there was no money to build a chapel, for that reason the war memorial is dedicated to Saint Cornelius (Saint Corneille).

Jeanne d'Arc - Timeline

1412 - Approx date of birth
1425 - Visions of Saint Michael, Saint Catherine, and Saint Margaret, who told her to drive out the English and bring the Dauphin to Rheims for his coronation
1428, May - Went to Vaucouleurs to ask garrison commander, Count Robert de Baudricourt, to send her to the royal French court at Chinon, but is sent away.
1429, February - Baudricourt allows Jeanne to join the Dauphin at Chinon.
1429, May 8 - Lifting of the siege of Orleans
1429, July 17 - Coronation of Charles VII in Reims
1430, May 23 - Captured at Compiègne
1431, May 30 - Executed at Rouen
1871 - After the defeat of 1871, in many French towns and villages statues of Jeanne d'Arc are erected.

Sculptor

Guillaume Meyer, sculptor from Colmar.

Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique: Tome second (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2011), p. 165-168.

Locatie (N 47°55'24" - E 7°9'26") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: fral078; Photograph: 15 April 2012
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