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Jeanne d'Arc à l'étendard

Joan of Arc and Standard

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)

Félix Charpentier
Maurice Denonvilliers (Paris)
1888

Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois / Jeanne d'Arc à l'étendard

Description

Cast iron statue. On the front of the pedestal the bronze coat of arms of Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois, on the other sides texts.

Inscription(s)

Jeanne d'Arc
allant à Chinon s'arrêta céans
le 5 Mars 1429

a
jeanne d'arc
la
commune
de s^te catherine
de fierbois

Le 23 avril 1429
Jeanne d'Arc
envoya querir ici son épée

Signed: Fondu par / M^r.e. Denonvilliers

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.

Old Postcard(s)

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Sculptor

Félix Charpentier (Bollène, Vaucluse 1858 - Paris 1924), French sculptor.

Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique du XVIe au XXe siècle (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2008), p. 97.
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, Statues en France (WebArchive).

Locatie (N 47°9'26" - E 0°39'16") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frce032; Photograph: 30 August 2011
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