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'''Saint Joan of Arc''' called herself, ''Jeanne la Pucelle'', meaning "Jean the Maid."  Also known as "Joan of Orleans," for her miraculous intervention in the One Hundred Years War, the turning point of which was the "Siege of Orleans," ended by Joan's brilliant military command.
[[File:Panthéon - La vie de Jeanne d'Arc (hlw16 0310)- crop folk.jpg|Panthéon - La vie de Jeanne d'Arc (hlw16 0310)- crop folk|center|850px]]]'''Saint Joan of Arc''' called herself, ''Jeanne la Pucelle'', meaning "Jean the Maid."  Also known as "Joan of Orleans," for her miraculous intervention in the One Hundred Years War, the turning point of which was the "Siege of Orleans," ended by Joan's brilliant military command.





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Panthéon - La vie de Jeanne d'Arc (hlw16 0310)- crop folk
Panthéon - La vie de Jeanne d'Arc (hlw16 0310)- crop folk

]Saint Joan of Arc called herself, Jeanne la Pucelle, meaning "Jean the Maid." Also known as "Joan of Orleans," for her miraculous intervention in the One Hundred Years War, the turning point of which was the "Siege of Orleans," ended by Joan's brilliant military command.


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Jeanne D'Arc (1895) by Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel

In 1896, Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel illustrated a children's book of the life of Joan of Arc. Through the early 1900s, he expanded several of the images into full paintings, a collection of which are held by the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, per here: