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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.
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.
Her given name at birth is also sometimes written as "Jeanneton" [4] [5] or "Jeannette", with Joan of Arc possibly having removed the diminutive suffix -eton or -ette in her teenage years. [6] The surname of Arc is a translation of d'Arc, which itself is a nineteenth-century French approximation of her father's name.
More than 600 years after her birth, Joan of Arc — a patron saint of France — remains an object of not just historical, but cultural fascination.
In celebration of Saint Joan’s 607th birthday, CR revisits her story as an icon of faith in oneself
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 ...
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 ...
Joan of Arc was in the news after World War I, having been canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in 1920 and named one of the patron saints of France. [ 6 ] Dreyer spent over a year and a half researching her; the script was based on the original transcripts of her trial, condensing 29 interrogations over the course of 18 months ...