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Jeanne d'Arc

Joan of Arc

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)

Denys Foyatier & Vital-Dubray
1855

Description

Bronze equestrian statue by Foyatier on a granite base with ten reliefs by Dubrayon two levels. Two large reliefs at the sides of the upper level:

Prise du Fort des Tourelles - Seizure of the Fort des Tourelles.
Sacre de Charles VII à Reims - Coronation of Charles VII at Reims.
Around the base eight reliefs (long sides three reliefs each):
Jeanne d'Arc au Bois-Chenu - Jeanne d'Arc in the Bois-Chenu.
Jeanne quitte Vaucouleurs - Jeanne leaves Vaucouleurs.
Rencontre du Dauphin à Chinon - Meeting with the Dauphin at Chinon.
Entrée dans Orléans - Arrival at Orléans.
Jeanne blessée devant Paris - Jeanne wounded near Paris.
Jeanne est prise devant Compiègne - Jeanne is taken prisoner near Compiègne.
En prison à Rouen - In the Rouen prison.
Jeanne au bûcher - Jeanne at the stake.

Inscription(s)

A Jeanne d'Arc
la ville d'ORLÉANS
avec le councours
de la FRANCE entière

sous la regne de napoléon iii
le viii mai m.dccc.lv
quatre cent vingt sixiême anniversaire
de la délivrance d'orléans
cette statue
a été inaugurée
en present de m abbatucci ministre de la justice
et bénie par m dupanloup évêque d'orléans
m p boselli étant préfet du loiret
m genteur maire de la ville

le viii mai m.dccc.lxi
les reliefs du piédestal
ont été inaugurés
m le c^te de coëtlogon étant préfet
m e vignat maire

Side:

Messire m'a envoyée
pour secourir la bonne ville
d'Orléans

cette statue gravement endommagée
au cours de la deuxième guerre Mondiale
a été restaurée en 1950
grâce a la générosité
des habitants de la Nouvelle Orléans

Signed: Foyatier 1855

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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Sculptors

Denys Foyatier (Bussières, Loire 1793 - Paris 1863), French sculptor (Wikipedia).
Le marquis Vital Gabriel Dubray, dit Vital-Dubray (Paris 1813 - Paris 1892), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique du XVIe au XXe siècle (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2008), p. 161-170 and 199-204.
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, Statues en France (WebArchive).
Kees van Tilburg, From Marcus Aurelius to Kim Jong-il: The story of equestrian statues throughout the ages (Amstelveen, 2017). – see also the Equestrian statue website.

Locatie (N 47°54'8" - E 1°54'13") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frce061; Photograph: 10 September 2011
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