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Jeanne d'Arc au sacre - Monument aux morts

Joan of Arc at the Coronation - 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)

Union artistique de Vaucouleurs
1920s

Virandeville / Jeanne d'Arc au sacre - Monument aux morts

Description

War memorial with a cast iron statue of Joan of Arc.

Inscription(s)

Aux Enfants
VIRANDEVILLE
MORTS pour la PATRIE
1914-1918
1939-1945

Signature

Union artistique
de Vaucouleurs

Virandeville - Jeanne d'Arc au sacre - Monument aux morts

Memorial - list of names

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Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique: Tome second (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2011), p. 267-268.

Locatie (N 49°34'9" - W 1°43'33") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frbn155; Photograph: 9 August 2015
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