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Le buste sauvé de Jeanne d'Arc

The saved bust of 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)

Gérard Ambroselli
1985

Sigolsheim / Le buste sauvé de Jeanne d'Arc

Description

Column of red sandstone with reliefs on the sides. In an open space is a bust of Jeanne d'Arc, the only part of a statue that survived the second World War. The reliefs are:

Front: Jeanne d'Arc with a flag on a horse and her coat of arms.
Left: three regimental flags, representing the victorious battles of Orléans, Jargeau and Patay.
Right: the huge flames of the stake at Rouen.

The coat of arms is flanked by Jeanne d'Arc's dates: 1412 domremy - rouen 1431

Inscription(s)

A JEANNE D'ARC
ce buste relique du monument
sauvé par gilgenkrantz julien
et muckensturm eugène en 1940
a été restitué le 2 fevrier 1985

Signed: GA

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

Gérard Ambroselli (Paris 1906 - Saint-Pierre-en-Port 2000), French painter and sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique: Tome second (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2011), p. 36-42.
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, Statues en France (WebArchive).
Petit Patrimoine, Le buste de Jeanne d'Arc a été sauvé.

Locatie (N 48°8'4" - E 7°18'3") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: fral060; Photograph: 15 April 2012
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