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What possessed, Joan of Arc, a normal, 15th century teenaged girl from a modest village, to travel for 11 days to tell the dauphin of France she needed to lead an an army to Orléans to save the country from English power? What possessed the dauphin to grant her request, against the advice of his councilors and generals?

St. Joan of Arc icon © Cecilia Lawrence May 30th, 2014 4.5 x 6 inches Ink, watercolor, gold leaf “Lord, Joan is Your splendid work, A heart o... St. Joan of Arc icon

Joan of Arc has been branded as the “first” for many different and often contradictory ideologies. But here is the truth about Joan of Arc.

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The Artist: Jules Bastien-Lepage lived for only thirty-six years, but he made a large impact on the French art world of the second half of the nineteenth century (see fig. 1 above, and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’s medallion made in tribute to him, The Met,