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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. Claiming to be ...
Joan of Arc dictated her letters. Three of the surviving ones are signed. Another replica of a signature made on 16 March 1430. Due to inconsistent record keeping and different contemporary customs, the name of Joan of Arc at birth is not known for certain.
Gilles de Rais (French pronunciation: [ʒil də ʁɛ]; c. 1405 – 26 October 1440), Baron de Rais, was a knight and lord from Brittany, Anjou and Poitou, a leader in the French army during the Hundred Years' War, and a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He is best known for his reputation and later conviction as a confessed serial killer of ...
Joan of Arc’s story has been told on film and television many times, including in Luc Besson’s “The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc,” starring Milla Jovovich.
The Amazonian image of Joan of Arc in armor is perhaps the most recurrent one in popular culture, inspiring thousands, if not hundreds and thousands, of similar depictions. Painters Rubens, Ingres ...
A new Globe Theatre production exploring the life of Joan of Arc will see the legendary French heroine made into a non-binary character. The historical figure is known for fearlessly leading the ...
Emmanuel Frémiet's statue (made in 1874) of Joan of Arc in armor, located outside Place des Pyramides in Paris. Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc), a French historical figure executed by the English for heresy in 1431, is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. Joan accompanied an army during the Hundred Years War, adopting ...
Such haircut is still known in French as coupe à la Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc's haircut). During the Cristero War in 1927, a group of female Cristeros named themselves after Joan of Arc. They obtained money, supplies, and intelligence for the male combatants.