A great idea for a thread @Doragon .. her story is quasi-mythic, rising from peasant childhood to prophet, military leader and kingmaker, then comes betrayal, capture, torture, trial and martyrdom, it’s got everything…
there’s a lot of wonderful Joan/ Jeanne/ /Jehanne art out there, for example this painting by dashinvaine:
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Agreed(Think @Eulalia in armour!) this is very inspiring!!
I wouldn’t say this is a great sculpture but damn, I love the idea of Jeanne tied at the stake like this, legs wide apart, so everyone can see her gender; no doubt her prison dress is burned away before the pyre is lit, so the groundlings can get a good look; how humiliating!
Someone posted this in another thread on this forum (Eulalia perhaps?) and I immediately saved it to my collection.I wouldn’t say this is a great sculpture but damn, I love the idea of Jeanne tied at the stake like this, legs wide apart, so everyone can see her gender; no doubt her prison dress is burned away before the pyre is lit, so the groundlings can get a good look; how humiliating!
I don’t know if it’s true, but that’s precisely the sort of thing a medieval prince would have done, and if Jeanne saw through the deception, there are many possible (non-supernatural) explanations for that! Anyway, it makes a good storySurely the legend of Jeane d'Arc in Chinon is false but I love it.
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Surely many of you know it. Jean has just arrived in Chinon to meet the Dauphin Carlos but the nobles decide to make fun of her. The Dauphin exchanges his royal clothes with a nobleman and hides among them. Jean does not know him, but nevertheless discovers the derision and recognizes the Dauphin in the crowd, so she kneels before him telling that she has a message from God.
Indeed!