![]() ![]() ![]() The fascination with her story started in her own century with her trial’s transcripts. ![]() There are stacks of academic and popular nonfiction as well as historical fiction about Joan. Visiting the same buildings and places where Joan was in the late Middle Ages provides a concrete connection to and sense of her world. In France many of the places and sites associated with “the Maid” of 600 years ago are intact and can be visited today. The story of Jeanne La Pucelle, as she is known in France, has been beautifully depicted by artists and writers for centuries-as well as in films. JOAN OF ARC (French, 1412-1431) is one of the best documented and most popular of late medieval saints. Illustrations by French artist, Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet (1872-1967), are in the Public Domain. The next day, May 30, 1431, the 19-year-old French visionary and soldier was burned at the stake in the market place of Rouen, France. FEATURE image: Joan of Arc was condemned as a heretic by 37 judges sympathetic to her enemies in England. ![]()
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