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Jeanne d'Arc au sacre

Joan of Arc at the Coronation

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)

André Besqueut
1922

Description

Altar with a statue of Jeanne d'Arc as centerpiece of the war memorial for World War I. The altar is flanked by statues of Sainte-Géneviève and Sainte-Clotilde.

Inscription(s)

Signed: andre besqueut

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

André Besqueut (Saint-Christophe-sur-Dolaison 1850 - Vals-près-Le-Puy 1942), French sculptor. The replicas of his statue "Jeanne d'Arc au sacre" (1912) were made by Estoup et Cazes in Le Puy-en-Velay, often in plaster.

Sources & Information

Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, Statues en France (WebArchive).
Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique du XVIe au XXe siècle (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2008), p. 47-48 (this copy not mentioned).

Locatie (N 43°36'0" - E 1°27'2") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frmp040; Photograph: 2 September 2011
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