38 Artists Embedded with Joan of Arc’s Military Campaign, With Footnotes

Central Part of The Life of Joan of Arc Triptych), c. 1843
Oil on canvas
135 × 146 cm (53.1 × 57.4 in)
Hermitage Museum
On this day in 1429, French heroine Joan of Arc, a peasant girl who believed she was acting under divine guidance, attempted to oust the duke of Burgundy and take Paris for newly crowned King Charles VII…
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