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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.
Joan's home village of Domrémy was near the border between the French Duchy of Bar and the Duchy of Lorraine in the Holy Roman Empire, so at the time many in France believed in her. During her examination at Poitiers , Joan was reportedly questioned about a recent prophecy attributed (perhaps incorrectly) to Marie d'Avignon [ 1 ] concerning an ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Anne was present during the trial against Joan of Arc. She herself, [ 4 ] or the women of her household on her behalf, examined the virginity of Joan of Arc and confirmed her to be a virgin. [ 5 ] Anne was reportedly impressed by Joan of Arc, and gave orders that no man, guards or men or high rank, was to touch Joan during her imprisonment.
Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc) is an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, who had prepared the libretti for Nabucco and I Lombardi. It is Verdi's seventh opera.
Joan of Arc drawing by Clément de Fauquembergue, 1429. The artist never saw Joan. [1] There are a number of revisionist theories about Joan of Arc which contradict the established account of her life. These include the theories she was an illegitimate royal child; that she was not burned at the stake; that most of her story is a fabrication ...