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Jeanne d'Arc: see Joan of Arc Joan of Arc, Fr. Jeanne D'Arc (zhän därk), 1412?–31, French saint and national heroine, called the Maid of Orléans; daughter of a farmer of Domrémy on the border of Champagne and Lorraine. ..... Click the link for more information. . Joan of Arc, SaintFrench Jeanne d'Arc(born c. 1412, Domrémy, Bar, Fr.—died May 30, 1431, Rouen; canonized May 16, 1920; feast day May 30) French military heroine. She was a peasant girl who from an early age believed she heard the voices of Sts. Michael, Catherine, and Margaret. When she was about 16, her voices began urging her to aid France's Dauphin (crown prince) and save France from the English attempt at conquest in the Hundred Years' War. Dressed in men's clothes, she visited the Dauphin and convinced him, his advisers, and the church authorities to support her. With her inspiring conviction, she rallied the French troops and raised the English siege of Orléans in 1429. She soon defeated the English again at Patay. The Dauphin was crowned king at Reims as Charles VII, with Joan beside him. Her siege of Paris was unsuccessful, and in 1430 she was captured by the Burgundians and sold to the English. Abandoned by Charles, she was turned over to the ecclesiastical court at Rouen, controlled by French clerics who supported the English, and tried for witchcraft and heresy (1431). She fiercely defended herself but finally recanted and was sentenced to life imprisonment; when she again asserted that she had been divinely inspired, she was burned at the stake. She was not canonized until 1920. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| In this work, set up as a double projection, Tellez continues his investigation into psychiatry, collaborating with people who have experienced mental disorders to produce a new set of intertitles for Carl Theodor Dreyer's silent masterpiece La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928). The popular imagination seems never to tire of her, and the story of the maid of Orleans has been the subject of at least twenty films, most effectively in Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent masterpiece La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, most recently in last year's thoroughly contemporary The Messenger (see Richard Alleva,"Dames at War," December 17, 1999). The poems to Jeanne d'Arc are a curious phenomenon - Bertela explains that this was a theme practiced by Catholic poets who supported Louis XIII's campaign against the Huguenots. |
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