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Jeanne d'Arc écoutant ses voix

Joan of Arc listening to her voices

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-Joseph Allar
1894

Domrémy-la-Pucelle / Jeanne d'Arc écoutant ses voix

Description

Sculpture group shwoing Jeanne d'Arc with the saints Michael, Catherine and Margaret.
The statue of Jeanne d'Arc is made of marble and shows Jeanne as a kneeling peasant girl, since the last restauration she is not looking at the saints.
The saints statues are made of bronze. St. Michael is shown in a golden armour with a cross-standard, he is flanked by St. Catherine with a sword (and her attribute, the broken wheel) and St. Margaret with a helmet.

Annotation

The sculpture group is restored in 2011.

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-Joseph Allar (Toulon 1845 - Toulon 1926), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique du XVIe au XXe siècle (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2008), p. 29.
Wikipedia, Basilique du Bois-Chenu.
Histoire & Patrimoine Bleurvillois, Domremy : restauration du monument de la basilique du Bois-Chenu.
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, Statues en France (WebArchive).

Locatie (N 48°25'42" - E 5°40'13") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frlo034; Photograph: 13 June 2011
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