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Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk] ⓘ; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
The Joan of Arc category consists of those articles related to the story and history of the 15th-century French peasant girl who played a pivotal, though brief, role in the later stages of the Hundred Years' War.
The Trial of Joan of Arc was a 15th century legal proceeding against Joan of Arc, a French military leader under Charles VII during the Hundred Years' War. During the siege of Compiègne in 1430, she was captured by Burgundian forces and subsequently sold to their English allies.
Jeanne d'Arc écoutant ses voix (Joan of Arc listening to voices) François-Léon Benouville: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen: ca. 1860 Jeanne d'Arc au siège de Paris (Joan of Arc at the Siege of Paris) Jozef Van Lerius: Private collection oil on panel, 108.8 × 179 cm (46 ¾ x 70 ½ in) 1863 Joan of Arc Kissing the Sword of Deliverance
Chloe Sevigny's Halloween version of Joan of Arc was inspired by the 1986 The Smiths song "Bigmouth Strikes Again," and the lyric "Now I know how Joan of Arc felt/As the flames rose to her Roman ...
The St. Joan of Arc Chapel at the Marquette University campus, moved from its original location in France. Joan of Arc's feast day is 30 May. Although reforms in 1968 moved many medieval European saints' days off the general calendar in order to make room for more non-Europeans, her feast day is still celebrated on many local and regional ...
Warner Bros. confirmed in September that Luhrmann was taking on the epic tale of France’s national heroine and saint Joan of Arc. The film is based on “Blood Red, Sister Rose,” the 1974 ...
Bella Thorne, Rebecca De Mornay, Mitzi Peirone on How Joan of Arc Inspired ‘Saint Clare’: ‘You Don’t Have to F—ing Take It’ John Bleasdale July 16, 2024 at 4:22 AM