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Jeanne d'Arc - 5me centenaire

Joan of Arc - 500th anniversary

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)

Georges-Henri Prud'homme
1929

Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois / Jeanne d'Arc - 5me centenaire

Description

Bronze relief portrait on a marble plaque.

Inscription(s)

1429 1929

JEANNE D'ARC

passa a sainte catherine de fierbois le 5
mars et y fit prendre son epee liberatrice
le 23 avril 1429

cinquieme centenaire

Signed: g prvd'homme

Annotation

The plaque is placed in the courtyard of the Mairie, obviously waiting for a new place to be mounted.

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

Georges-Henri Prud'homme (Cap Breton 1873 - Paris 1947), French sculptor and medallist.

Locatie (N 47°9'25" - E 0°39'15") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frce034; Photograph: 30 August 2011
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