Statues - Hither & Thither

Place de la Liberté

Jeanne d'Arc équestre - Monument aux morts

Joan of Arc - War memorial

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)

Emile Roy
1923/1948

Marlenheim / Jeanne d'Arc équestre - Monument aux morts

Description

Cast-iron statue of Jeanne d'Arc as a virgin warrior in armour, with her left hand she holds a standard
This is model K of the Vaucouleurs factory.

Inscription(s)

aux
enfants de
marlenheim
victimes
des guerres
1914 - 1918
1939 - 1945

inauguré le 5.9.1948
par m^r. r. paira préfet du bas-rhin
sous m^e r. klein - maire

Signed:

Union artistique
de Vaucouleurs (Meuse)

(pedestal) a. auscher / wasselonne

Annotation

Inaugurated in 1923, destroyed during World War II and replaced by an identical copy in 1948.

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.

War memorial - list of names

We have photos of the list(s) of victims on this memorial. Contact us if you want to see these lists.

Sculptor

Emile Roy (Nancy 1874 - ?), French sculptor in the Vaucouleurs factory.

Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique du XVIe au XXe siècle (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2008), p. 426.
Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique: Tome second (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2011), p. 273.

Location (N 48°37'18" - E 7°29'25")

Item Code: fral037; Photograph: 17 April 2012
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
If you want to use photos, please contact us via the contact form (in Dutch, English or German).
© Website and photos: René & Peter van der Krogt