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While I am fairly certain that a number of war memorials
in France embody the iconography of Jeanne d'Arc, I have so far
only learned of one for certain, a WWI memorial with a statue of
Jeanne d'Arc in an abbey at Mouzon, between Montmedy Sedan and
the Route des Fortifications. I would be very grateful to
anyone who could provide a photograph of this memorial, or
of any other WWI memorials related to Jeanne d'Arc.
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Since writing the above paragraph, I have been presented with a photograph of a war memorial
showing a Poilu kneeling at the feet of Jeanne d'Arc. The sculptor (standing beside
his monument in his studio), is Maxime Real del Sarte, who sculpted both a number of WWI memorials and statues of
Jeanne d'Arc.
Photograph and information courtesy of
Rik Scherpenberg,
President, War Relics Archives
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Another monument by del Sarte, of which there are several models ... this one is in Rome;
others are in Quebec, in Rouen and in Bayonne.
Photograph and information courtesy of
Rik Scherpenberg,
President, War Relics Archives
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Two members of the American Ambulance in front of the statue of Jeanne d'Arc and the Cathedral at Reims,
ca.1916.
~~ from William Yorke Stevenson's From Poilu to Yank, Houghton Mifflin, 1918.
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