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Monument aux Morts 1914-18 - Jeanne d'Arc

War Memorial 1914-18 - 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)

Pierre Le Nordez & Mathurin Moreau
Val d`Osne (Paris)
1899/1921

Gandrange / Monument aux Morts 1914-18 - Jeanne d'Arc

Description

Equestrian statue, named La Bourgogne à Jeanne d'Arc (From Burgundy to Joan of Arc). Jeanne d'Arc, in armour with the standard in her right hand, on a rearing horse.

Inscription(s)

GANDRANGE

en
pieux
homage
†
a eux
l'immortalité

BOUSSANGE

a des
morts
glorieux
†
a nous
le souvenir

a eux l'immortalite
a nous le souvenir
—
L. Jost Maire
A LAbbe G Dubois
Cure de Grandange
12 juin 1921

Signed: (unreadable)
valdosne / fondeur paris

A tablet with the names of the fallen in the Second World War was added later.

Annotation

The first version of this statue was erected at Montebourg in 1899, it was commissioned by Albert Le Nordez, Bishop of Verdun from his uncle, the horse sculptor Pierre Le Nordez, and presented to his birth place Montebourg. The figure of Jeanne d'Arc is sculpted by Moreau.

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.

Sculptors

Pierre Le Nordez (Vast 1814 - Saint-Maur 1892), French sculptor of horses.
Mathurin Moreau (Dijon 1822 - Paris 1912), French sculptor, worked for the Société anonyme des hauts-fourneaux et fonderies du Val d'Osne, anciennes masions J.P.V. André, Barbezat et Cie, Fourment Houille et Cie, J.J. Ducel et fils : Seringe frères et Noailles (short: Val d'Osne). (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Bernard Mugnier, La statuaire johannique du XVIe au XXe siècle (Vesoul: l'auteur, 2008), p. 295-296.
Jean-Marc Bodson, Modèle français (Bruxelles: Husson, 2008), no. 28.
Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, Statues en France (WebArchive).
Kees van Tilburg, From Marcus Aurelius to Kim Jong-il: The story of equestrian statues throughout the ages (Amstelveen, 2017). – see also the Equestrian statue website.

Locatie (N 49°16'6" - E 6°7'31") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frlo136; Photograph: 15 June 2011
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