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Jeanne d'Arc blessée à la bataille de Jargeau

Joan of Arc Wounded at the Battle of Jargeau

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)

Alfred-Désiré Lanson
Leblanc-Barbedienne (Paris)
1895

Jargeau / Jeanne d'Arc blessée à la bataille de Jargeau

Description

Bronze statue.

Inscription(s)

A
JEANNE D'ARC

12 Juin 1429

Signed: lanson 1895
offert par / m^r et m^me georges DUPUIS
leblanc - barbedienne / fondeur paris

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

Alfred-Désiré Lanson (Orléans 1851 - Paris 1898), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique du XVIe au XXe siècle (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2008), p. 257-258.
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, Statues en France (WebArchive).

Locatie (N 47°52'1" - E 2°7'19") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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