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Recreating Jeanne d’Arc, in Rouen

On this day, 30 May in 1431 Jeanne d'Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen. We are honouring her memory with these three vintage postcards, found in the Foire Des Andaines, Normandy on a very hot day last year. No. 4 - Joan and her soldiers reach Orléans on 29 April 1429 No.

A mother’s love, faith and Joan d’Arc, in Rouen

Or, 'Isabelle, who made the Maid of Orléans'. To any other mother in the village of Domrémy, Joan would have been considered a difficult child.  Even before the visions started she argued her views loudly and displayed a stubbornness bordering on the unfeminine. But Joan’s mother was Isabelle Romée, wife of farmer

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