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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)

Paul Dubois
1895

Description

Bronze equestrian statue depicting Joan of Arc riding into battle with a sword in her hand.

Inscription(s)

je sui cy envoiee de par dieu, le roy du ciel
corps pour corps pour vous bouter
hors de toute france

(lettre au duc de bedford)

elle disoit aux siens:
entrez hardiment par my les anglois
et elle mesmes y entroit.

(proces de condamnation)

JEANNE D'ARC
(1412 - 1431)
a l'age de 17 ans
entreprend de chasser les ennemis
hors de france
elle fait lever les siege d'orleans
detruit l'armee anglaise a patay
conduit charles xii a reims
et le fait sacrer roi
blessee en voulant delivrer paris
elle est prive devant compiegne
et brulee vive par les anglais
a rouen
elle avait 19 ans

lors elle dist:
que jamais n'avoit veu sang de francois
que les cheveulx ne luy levassent ensur.

(proces de condamnation)

venoient les pouvres gens voulentiers a elle
pour ce qu'elle ne leur faisoit point de desplaisir
mais les supportoit a son povour.

(proces de condamnation)

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

Paul Dubois (Nogent-sur-Seine 1829 - Paris 1905), French sculptor (his statue) (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique du XVIe au XXe siècle (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2008), p. 156.
Wikipedia, Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc.
Phidias-Sculptures de rue, Les statues de rue de Paris.
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 48°52'31" - E 2°19'9") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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Jeanne d'Arc

Joan of Arc

Description

Inscription(s)

Jeanne d'Arc - Timeline

Sculptor

Sources & Information

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Locatie (N 48°52'31" - E 2°19'9") (Satellite view: Google Maps)