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This web project is specific related to Jeanne d'Arc, also known as Joan of Ac (1412-1431) - a recognized Saint of the Roman Catholic Church. To tell the story about her life, her achievements, and her death, as attested on oath in the original trail documents, one of the most celebrated documents of medieval history.

This online exhibition will show through out collection of books, sculpture, posters, comics, photographs, paintings, medals, coins, porcelains, manuscripts, etc.... - to explore how the same historical facts can create so many Jeanne d'Arcs.

Girl and soldier, saint and heretic, savior - since the time of her death, Jeanne has inspired thousands of historians, poets, and painters. Each of them tells a different story. Guided by what she thought were divine voices, Jeanne revived French fortunes in the Hundred Years' War. She played a major (and somewhat mysterious) role in rallying the flagging forces of Charles VII against the English occupier in 1429, leading her troops to breaking the siege of Orléans and having Charles VII officially crowned king in Reims the same year.

She was later captured and sold to the English, who burned her at the stake for heresy and perjury in 1431, in Rouen France. Her death only made her more powerful.

      She was only 19 years old

Sixteenth-century France made her a national heroine.
The men of subsequent centuries took her story for their plays and poems, her image for their statues. She became the spirit of France, the maiden, the holy warrior, the Republican and Napoleonic symbol for opposition to the English and for those who would protect France from foreign domination.

In the Second World War Charles de Gaulle used her standard, the Cross of Lorraine, as the symbol of Free France. In 1920 she was canonized as a saint by Pope Benedict XV.

Last updated: 16/01/2010
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Partisans Contents
Complete movie from 1917 now online
Complete movie from 1899 now online
Christine de Pisan (1364-1431) - Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc
Joan of Arc Complete online book by Francis Cabot Lowell.
Rare BBC Radio play Added to the Audio section


Quote:
Jeanne encouraging her troops:
"In God's name, we must fight them! Even if the English hang from the clouds, yet we shall have them! For God sends us to punish them. Today the gentle Dauphin will have the greatest victory he has won for a long time! My Voices have told me that the enemy will be ours."