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  2. Joan of Arc - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Trial of Joan of Arc - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Joan of Arc, Sick, Interrogated in Prison by the Cardinal of ...

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    Joan of Arc, Sick, Interrogated in Prison by the Cardinal of Winchester is an oil on canvas painting by French painter Paul Delaroche, created in 1824.The painting depicts Joan of Arc as she is being interrogated by Cardinal Henry Beaufort, of Winchester, despite the fact that the event never happened.

  5. Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc - Wikipedia

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    Joan of Arc Listening for the First Time to the Voices That Predict Her Prominent Fate: Pedro Américo: Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro: oil on canvas, 229 × 156 cm (90.2 × 61.4 in) 1886 The Maid of Orleans, entrance of Joan of Arc into Reims in 1429: Jan Matejko: National Museum in Kraków: 1887 Entree de Jeanne d'Arc à Orléans

  6. Category:Joan of Arc - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by the Trinity, Pope Calixtus III authorizes the Rehabilitation trial of Joan of Arc (Manuscrit de Diane de Poitiers, XVIth century). The conviction of Joan of Arc in 1431 was posthumously investigated on appeal in the 1450s by Inquisitor-General Jean Bréhal at the request of Joan's surviving family—her mother Isabelle Romée and ...

  8. Canonization of Joan of Arc - Wikipedia

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    Charles Lamb chided Samuel Taylor Coleridge for reducing Joan to "a pot girl" in the first drafts of The Destiny of Nations, initially part of Robert Southey's Joan of Arc. She was the subject of essays by Lord Mahon for The Quarterly Review, [15] and by Thomas De Quincey for Tait's. [16] In 1890, the Joan of Arc Church was dedicated to her.

  9. Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (Washington, D.C.) - Wikipedia

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    Joan of Arc is an equestrian statue, with Joan of Arc riding a trotting horse, resting upon a three-tiered granite base (H. 52 in. x W 11. ft.). Her body is twisted slightly, and her right arm is raised behind her. She is wearing a helmet with a raised visor and she looks skywards.