Jeanne d'Arc, la Pucelle - Joan of Arc

St. Joan of Arc, byname French Sainte Jeanne d’Arc or La Pucelle d’Orléans, (born c. 1412, Domrémy, Bar, France—died May 30, 1431, Rouen; canonized May 16, 1920; feast day May 30; French national holiday, second Sunday in May), national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War. Captured a year afterward, Joan was burned to death by the English and their French collaborators as a heretic. She became the greatest national heroine of her compatriots, and her achievement was a decisive factor in the later awakening of French national consciousness. This statue was the gift of Sanford Saltus to the city of Blois, France. Artwork of [Anna Hyatt Huntington](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Hyatt_Huntington) a famous, american sculptor woman.