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Jeanne d'Arc

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Jeanne d'Arc  (zhän därk)

Jeanne d'Arc [ʒɑn dark]
n
(Biographies) the French name of Joan of Arc
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Noun1.Jeanne d'ArcJeanne d'Arc - French heroine and military leader inspired by religious visions to organize French resistance to the English and to have Charles VII crowned king; she was later tried for heresy and burned at the stake (1412-1431)


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In this work, set up as a double projection, Tellez continues his investigation into psychiatry, collaborating with people who have experienced mental disorders to produce a new set of intertitles for Carl Theodor Dreyer's silent masterpiece La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928).
The popular imagination seems never to tire of her, and the story of the maid of Orleans has been the subject of at least twenty films, most effectively in Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent masterpiece La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, most recently in last year's thoroughly contemporary The Messenger (see Richard Alleva,"Dames at War," December 17, 1999).
The poems to Jeanne d'Arc are a curious phenomenon - Bertela explains that this was a theme practiced by Catholic poets who supported Louis XIII's campaign against the Huguenots.
 
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