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Jeanne d'Arc guerrière

Joan of Arc Warrior

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)

Étienne Gois le fils
1803

Description

Bronze statue

Annotation

From 1803 - 1854 it was placed on the Place du Martroi, where it was in 1855 replaced with Foyatier's equestrian statue. The new location of Gois' statue was the Place Dauphiné and the southern end of the Pont Royal, and in 1955 it was relocated to the present location. The four bas-reliefs from the pedestal are now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts at Orléans.

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

Edme-Étienne-François Gois dit Étienne Gois le fils (Paris 1765 - Saint-Leu-Taverny 1836), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique du XVIe au XXe siècle (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2008), p. 221-224.
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, Statues en France (WebArchive).

Locatie (N 47°53'40" - E 1°54'21") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frce064; Photograph: 10 September 2011
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