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Jeanne d'Arc relevant l'épée de la France

Joan of Arc raises the sword of France

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)

Antonin Mercié
1893/1902

Domrémy-la-Pucelle / Jeanne d'Arc relevant l'épée de la France

Description

Marble sculpture depicting Jeanne d'Arc as peasant girl raising the sword, while she is protected by an armoured and crowned woman in a lly cloak.

Inscription(s)

Signed: Mercié

Annotation

Commissioned in 1890 at the initiative of the General Council of the Vosges, the monument was unveiled at the Salon in 1893 and erected on site in 1902.

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

Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (Toulouse 1845 - Paris 1916), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Le Village de Domremy (leaflet).
Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique du XVIe au XXe siècle (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2008), p. 286.
Jean-Marc Bodson, Modèle français (Bruxelles: Husson, 2008), no. 29.
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, Statues en France (WebArchive).

Locatie (N 48°26'30" - E 5°40'32") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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