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Jeanne d'Arc équestre

Joan of Arc equestrian statue

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)

Mathurin Moreau
Val d`Osne (Paris)
1909

Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle / Jeanne d'Arc équestre

Description

Equestrian statue, named La Bourgogne à Jeanne d'Arc (From Burgundy to Joan of Arc). Jeanne d'Arc, in armour with the standard in her right hand, on a rearing horse.

Inscription(s)

Signed: fonderies d'art du / val d'osne h^te Marne

Annotation

Inaugurated 19 September 1909, the statue symbolizes the attachment of the French to Alsacce and Lorraine. Fifty years later, in 1959, the statue was turned and faces the Alsace.

Saint-Maurice-sur-Moselle / Jeanne d'Arc

Ballon d'Alsace

There are four four monuments on the Ballon d'Alsace, where three departments meet:

Notre Dame du Ballon, in Haut-Rhin (almost on the border with Territoire de Belfort).
Memorial for René Pottier, in Vosges
Jeanne d'Arc, in Vosges (maybe 5 meters from the border with Territoire de Belfort).
Monument en mémoire des démineurs, exactly on the border of Vosges and Territoire de Belfort

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Old Postcard(s)

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Sculptor

Mathurin Moreau (Dijon 1822 - Paris 1912), French sculptor, worked for the Société anonyme des hauts-fourneaux et fonderies du Val d'Osne, anciennes masions J.P.V. André, Barbezat et Cie, Fourment Houille et Cie, J.J. Ducel et fils : Seringe frères et Noailles (short: Val d'Osne). (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique du XVIe au XXe siècle (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2008), p. 294-295.
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°49'28" - E 6°50'20") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frlo149; Photograph: 15 April 2012
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