Jeanne d'Arc - San Francisco, CA - American Guide Series on Waymarking.com

The statue is seated on a granite or marble base, while the statue itself is made of bronze. It's about 10 to 15 feet tall and is one of two similar statues at the grounds of the American Legion Building in San Francisco.

Taken from Wikipedia, "Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc,[4] IPA: [?an da?k]; 6 January c. 1412[5] – 30 May 1431), nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" (French: La Pucelle d'Orléans), is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War, and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. Joan of Arc was born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée, a peasant family, at Domrémy in north-east France. Joan said she received visions of the Archangel Michael, Saint Margaret, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria instructing her to support Charles VII and recover France from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent Joan to the siege of Orléans as part of a relief mission. She gained prominence after the siege was lifted only nine days later. Several additional swift victories led to Charles VII's coronation at Reims. This long-awaited event boosted French morale and paved the way for the final French victory.

On 23 May 1430, she was captured at Compiègne by the Burgundian faction, which was allied with the English. She was later handed over to the English[6] and put on trial by the pro-English Bishop of Beauvais Pierre Cauchon on a variety of charges.[7] After Cauchon declared her guilty she was burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, dying at about nineteen years of age.

In 1456, an inquisitorial court authorized by Pope Callixtus III examined the trial, debunked the charges against her, pronounced her innocent, and declared her a martyr. In the 16th century she became a symbol of the Catholic League, and in 1803 she was declared a national symbol of France by the decision of Napoleon Bonaparte.[9] She was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920. Joan of Arc is one of the nine secondary patron saints of France, along with St. Denis, St. Martin of Tours, St. Louis, St. Michael, St. Rémi, St. Petronilla, St. Radegund and Ste. Thérèse of Lisieux.

Joan of Arc has remained a popular figure in literature, painting, sculpture, and other cultural works since the time of her death, and many famous writers, filmmakers and composers have created works about her. Cultural depictions of her have continued in films, theater, television, video games, music, and performances to this day."

Taken from the book, "216. On the formally landscaped summit in the northern section of the park stands the city's largest art museum, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor (open daily 10-5; parking area; organ concerts Sat. and Sun. 3-4), a memorial to California's dead in the first World War, the gift (1924) of Adolph B. and Alma de Bretteville Spreckles. The cream colored palace, closely resembling the eighteenth-century classic Palais de la Legion d'Honneur (Paris, Franse) is approached thought a Roman arch flanked by two porticoes with double rows of Ionic columns. The porticoes abut the two wings of the palace to form a rectangular court. The wings are flanked by peristyles, each with 22 columns, and the main facade is fronted by a portico with six Corinthian columns. On of the five original bronze coasts of Auguste Rodin's The Thinker occupies the center of the court. The entire building is off set by a stone balustrade. Bronze equestrian statues (Ann Hyatt Huntington, sculptress El Cid, and Jeanne d'Arc, flank the path leading to the entrance. A marble plaque besides the doorway, the gift of France, reads: "Hommage de la France aux héros Californiens morts pour la défense du droit et la liberty" (France's homage to the California hero dead in defense of right and liberty)." -- San Fransisco, 1940

Book: San Francisco Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 315 Year Originally Published: 1940

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