Joan of Arc’s importance to the French people was further solidified when she was made a saint, four centuries later, in 1920. Following the execution of Joan of Arc, Henry VI of England wrote ...

More than 800 years after her birth, Joan of Arc — a patron saint of France — remains an object of not just historical, but ...

During the 19th century, Napoleon had her declared a national symbol of France, whilst in 1920, Pope Benedict XV canonised her as a patron saint. We don’t actually have an exact date of birth for Joan ...

Joan came from the village of Domrémy in the Lorraine area of northeastern France (now Domrémy-la-Pucelle in her honour). Jacques d’Arc, her father ... hear voices of figures that she identified as St ...