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Yvonne Lanhers
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Curator, National Archives, Paris. Coeditor of La Réhabilitation de Jeanne la Pucelle.

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Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres showing Joan of Arc in armor holding a banner at an altar during the coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral, with figures praying behind her.
St. Joan of Arc ; canonized May 16, 1920; feast day May 30; French national holiday, second Sunday in May) is a national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in 1429 to momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English…
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