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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc

Saint Joan of Arc also known as the Maid of Orleans, is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII of Franc...
 has inspired artistic and cultural works for nearly six centuries. The following lists cover various media to include items of historic interest, enduring works of high art, and recent representations in popular culture. The entries represent portrayals that a reader has a reasonable chance of encountering rather than a complete catalog. Lesser known works, particularly from early periods, are not included.






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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc

Saint Joan of Arc also known as the Maid of Orleans, is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII of Franc...
 has inspired artistic and cultural works for nearly six centuries. The following lists cover various media to include items of historic interest, enduring works of high art, and recent representations in popular culture. The entries represent portrayals that a reader has a reasonable chance of encountering rather than a complete catalog. Lesser known works, particularly from early periods, are not included. In 1979 the Bibliothèque Municipale in Rouen
Rouen

Rouen is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and currently the capital of the Haute-Normandie r?gion in France....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 held an exhibition that contained over 500 images and other items that related to Joan of Arc. Many of the excluded items are derivative of better known representations. For instance, Schiller's
Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller [johan/jo?han kr?st?f fri?t??? f?n ??l??/??l?] was a Germany poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright....
 play inspired at least 82 different dramatic works during the nineteenth century. Verdi's
Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic music composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers in the 19th century....
 and Tchaikovsky's
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
 operatic adaptations are still recorded and performed. Most of the others survive only in research libraries. In 1894 Émile Huet listed over 400 plays and musical works about Joan of Arc. Despite a great deal of scholarly interest in Joan of Arc no complete list of artistic works about her exists, although a 1989 doctoral dissertation did identify all relevant films including ones for which no copy survives.

For purposes of classification, popular culture music is a separate section from opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
s and oratorio
Oratorio

An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and solo ists. The oratorio was somewhat modeled after the opera. Their similarities include the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable Fictional character, and arias....
s. Film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
s include made-for-television movies and miniseries
Miniseries

A miniseries , in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes....
. Television covers live action series. Comics and Animation details both North American animation and Japanese anime
Anime

is animation in Japan and considered to be "Japanese animation" in the rest of the world. Anime dates from about 1917.Anime, in addition to manga , is extremely popular in Japan and well known throughout the world....
, as well as manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
 and graphic novel
Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a type of comic book, usually with a lengthy and complex storyline similar to those of novels. The term also encompasses comic short story anthologies, and in some cases bound collections of previously published comic book series ....
s.

The story of Joan of Arc was a popular subject for dramatization in the 1940s. In addition to Maxwell Anderson's play Joan of Lorraine
Joan of Lorraine

Joan of Lorraine is a 1946 play-within-a-play by Maxwell Anderson. It is about an acting company who stages a dramatization of the story of Joan of Arc and the effect that the story has on them....
 and the Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman

was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
 film Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (1948 film)

Joan of Arc is a 1948 in film Technicolor film directed by Victor Fleming; starring Ingrid Bergman as the Joan of Arc. It was produced by Walter Wanger....
, there was also the 1948 RKO film The Miracle of the Bells starring Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, and Frank Sinatra, about a dying film actress whose first and last role is Joan of Arc. There were also three radio dramatizations of the story of Joan during those years, one of them specifically written with a World War II framework.

Literature and theater


Date Title Author Notes
1429"Song in Honor of Joan of Arc"Christine de Pizan
Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan was a woman of the medieval era who strongly challenged misogyny and stereotypes that were prevalent in the male-dominated realm of the arts....
An elegiac poem written during Jeanne's own lifetime is this author's final work. English translation available: .
1450story of the Siege of Orléans
Orléans

Orl?ans is a city in north-central France, about 130 km southwest of Paris. It is the capital of the Loiret Departments of France and of the Centre R?gion in France....
Anonymous (possibly Jacques Millet)First performed in Orléans four years after Joan of Arc's death. The surviving version appears to be a revision from around 1450. God and several saints play major roles in this sprawling drama of more than a hundred speaking parts.
1590Henry VI, Part 1
Henry VI, part 1

The First Part of King Henry the Sixth is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed written in approximately 1588?1590. It is the first in the cycle of four plays often referred to as "The First Tetralogy"....
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English people poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist....
Joan la Pucelle is the principal villain. Drawn from English sources of the previous century, this Joan of Arc begins with the appearance of piety but soon proves to be a cunning witch justly executed. Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive and distribute cultural works, as founder Michael Hart said "To encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks."....
 text: .
1756The Maid of OrangesVoltaire
Voltaire

Fran?ois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Age of Enlightenment writer, essayist, and philosophy known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberty, including freedom of religion and free trade....
A mock epic poem that explores typically Voltairean themes deriding mysticism as humbug. Wikisource text (in French):
1801The Maid of OrléansFriedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller [johan/jo?han kr?st?f fri?t??? f?n ??l??/??l?] was a Germany poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright....
In literary rebuttal to Voltaire, Schiller creates a sympathetic Joan of Arc as a Romantic
Romanticism

Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution....
 heroine. A magic helmet renders her invincible until she falls in love, and she is killed in battle rather than being burned at the stake. This drama was the basis of Tchaikovsky's opera of the same name. Project Gutenberg text in English: .
1817 Philippe-Alexandre Le Brun de Charmettes
Philippe-Alexandre Le Brun de Charmettes

Philippe-Alexandre Le Brun de Charmettes was a French historian, poet, translator and official.De Charmettes was born in Bordeaux .He was appointed to the Conseil d'?tat in 1810 and became a pr?fet in the French department of Haute-Sa?ne in 1830....
(Paris, Ed. Artus Bertrand, 1817) Called the Maid of Orléans, drawn from her own declarations, of one hundred forty-four depositions of eyewitnesses, and of the manuscripts of the library of the King and the Tower of London
Tower of London

Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London , is a historic monument in central London, England, on the north bank of the River Thames....
.
1821L'ORLEANIDEPhilippe-Alexandre Le Brun de Charmettes
Philippe-Alexandre Le Brun de Charmettes

Philippe-Alexandre Le Brun de Charmettes was a French historian, poet, translator and official.De Charmettes was born in Bordeaux .He was appointed to the Conseil d'?tat in 1810 and became a pr?fet in the French department of Haute-Sa?ne in 1830....
(Paris, Ed. Smith, audin , 1821) L'ORLEANIDE, POEME NATIONAL EN VINGT-HUIT CHANTS.
1896Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joan's Page and secretary....
Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
This novel remains little remembered yet in his own opinion was his finest work. Twain spent months in France researching newly rediscovered documents. This reverent fictional biography is Twain's most uncharacteristic novel. Project Gutenberg text: and . He published it under a different pseudonym: Jean Francois Alden.
1912Tapestry of Saint Genevieve and Joan of ArcCharles Péguy
Charles Péguy

Charles P?guy was a noted France poet, essayist, and editor. His two main inspirations were socialism and nationalism, but by 1908 at the latest, he had become a devout but non-practicing Roman Catholic Church From then on, Catholicism had a major influence on his works....
Poetry. Péguy also wrote a play in three parts entitled Jeanne d'Arc, (1896).
1923Gilles and JeanneGeorg KaiserExpressionist drama explores Joan of Arc's association with the most notorious criminal of her era, Gilles de Rais
Gilles de Rais

Gilles de Montmorency-Laval, Baron of Rais, Count of Brienne, also known as Gilles de Rais , nicknamed Bluebeard , was Marshal of France and one-time companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc, but is perhaps best known as a prolific serial killer of the Middle Ages....
.
1923Saint Joan
Saint Joan (play)

Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw, based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Published not long after the canonization of Joan of Arc by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises based on what is known of her life and on the substantial records of her trial....
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, was an Irish people playwright.Although Shaw's first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays....
This drama, widely esteemed as Shaw's masterpiece, draws heavily from trial records. Historians dismiss Shaw's contention that she was an early Protestant with impartial judges. Subsequent twentieth century plays often mirror Shaw's interest in her trial. ISBN 0-14-043791-6
1930Saint Joan of the Stockyards
Saint Joan of the Stockyards

Saint Joan of the Stockyards is a play written by the German Modernism playwright Bertolt Brecht between 1929 and 1931, after the success of his Musical theatre The Threepenny Opera and during the period of his radical experimental work with the Lehrst?cke....
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht

was a Germany poet, playwright, and theatre director. An influential theatre practitioner of the Twentieth-century theatre, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and Theatre, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble?the post-war theatre company operated by Brec...
Transposes Joan of Arc into working-class Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
 and portrays her as a labor leader. Brecht made Joan of Arc the subject of two other plays, all three with Marxist themes; they are an adaptation of a radio play by Anna Seghers
Anna Seghers

File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-F0114-0204-003, Berlin, 1. DSV-Jahreskonferenz, Anna Seghers.jpgAnna Seghers was a Germany writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War....
, The Trial of Joan of Arc of Proven, 1431 and The Visions of Simone Machard
The Visions of Simone Machard

The Visions of Simone Machard is a play by the German Modernism playwright Bertolt Brecht. Written in 1942 in literature#New drama, the play is the second of three treatments of the Joan of Arc story that Brecht created ....
. ISBN 1-55970-420-9
1935A Vida de Joana D'Arc (Life of Joan of Arc)Érico Veríssimo
Erico Verissimo

?rico Ver?ssimo is an important Brazilian writer, who was born in Rio Grande do Sul. His father, heir of a rich family in Cruz Alta, Rio Grande do Sul, met financial ruin during his son's youth....
A Brazilian historical novel addressed to young people.
1946Joan of LorraineMaxwell Anderson
Maxwell Anderson

James Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist. He was a founding member of The Playwrights Company....
This play-within-a-play is chiefly memorable as the basis for Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman

was a Swedish people three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Actor. She also won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play in the 1st Tony Awards in 1947....
's screen portrayal. ASIN B0006YOM36
1953L'Alouette (The Lark)
L'Alouette (The Lark)

L'Alouette is a 1952 play by Jean Anouilh about Joan of Arc. It was presented on Broadway theatre in English in 1955, starring Julie Harris as Joan and Boris Karloff as Pierre Cauchon....
Jean Anouilh
Jean Anouilh

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a France dramatist....
An allegory of Vichy
Vichy France

Vichy France, or the Vichy regime are the common terms used to describe the government of France from July 1940 to August 1944. This government, which succeeded the French Third Republic, officially called itself the French State , in contrast with the previous designation, "French Republic." Marshal of France Philippe P?tain pro...
  collaboration in the aftermath of World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
. Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman was an United States playwright, linked throughout her life with many Left-wing politics causes. She was romantically involved for 30 years with mystery novel and crime novel writer Dashiell Hammett , and was also a long-time friend and literary executor of author Dorothy Parker....
's noteworthy English translation adds a critique of McCarthyism
McCarthyism

McCarthyism is the politically motivated practice of making accusations of disloyalty, subversion, or treason without proper regard for evidence....
 and included a score by Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
. ISBN 0-8222-0634-X
1964The Dead Lady of Clown Town
The Dead Lady of Clown Town

"The Dead Lady of Clown Town" is a science fiction short story by Cordwainer Smith, set in his Instrumentality of Mankind future history. It was originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1964....
Cordwainer Smith
Cordwainer Smith

Cordwainer Smith ? pronounced CORDwainer ? was the pseudonym used by United States author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger for his science fiction works....
A far-future science fiction story with strong parallels to the history of Joan of Arc.
1968The Image of the BeastPhilip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer

Philip Jos? Farmer was an United States author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy fiction novels and short story.Farmer is best known for his Riverworld series and the earlier World of Tiers series....
Joan of Arc is portrayed as an alien sexual predator, still alive in the 20th century but with her body altered to enable the also-alien 15th-century serial killer
Serial killer

A serial killer is a person who murders usually three or more people"One of the most famous [geographically stable] serial killers is Wayne Williams....
 Gilles de Rais
Gilles de Rais

Gilles de Montmorency-Laval, Baron of Rais, Count of Brienne, also known as Gilles de Rais , nicknamed Bluebeard , was Marshal of France and one-time companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc, but is perhaps best known as a prolific serial killer of the Middle Ages....
 to live within her vagina dentata
Vagina dentata

Vagina dentata is Latin for toothed vagina. Various cultures have folk tales about women with toothed vaginas, frequently told as cautionary tales warning of the dangers of sex with strange women and to discourage the act of rape....
 as a fang-toothed venomous snake that bites and paralyses men during intercourse.
1974Blood Red, Sister RoseThomas Keneally
Thomas Keneally

Thomas Michael Keneally Order of Australia is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction....
The novel explores the imagined psychology of Joan and tells her story from Domrémy
Domremy

Domremy or Domr?my is part of the name of several communes in France:* Domremy-la-Canne, in the Meuse department* Domr?my-la-Pucelle, in the Vosges department, formerly Domr?my, which was the birthplace of Joan of Arc...
 to the coronation of Charles VII
Charles VII of France

File:Charles VII Franc a cheval 1422 1423.jpgCharles VII , called the Victorious or the Well-Served , was List of French monarchs from 1422 to his death, though he was initially opposed by Henry VI of England, whose Regent ruled much of France from Paris....
. The conversations of Joan with her voices are a notable feature of the book. Significant secondary characters include Charles and Gilles de Rais
Gilles de Rais

Gilles de Montmorency-Laval, Baron of Rais, Count of Brienne, also known as Gilles de Rais , nicknamed Bluebeard , was Marshal of France and one-time companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc, but is perhaps best known as a prolific serial killer of the Middle Ages....
. ISBN 0-00-221087-8
1993The Second Coming of Joan of ArcCarolyn Gage
Carolyn Gage

Carolyn Gage is an American playwright , and an activist on lesbian and feminist issues. The author of four books on lesbian theatre and fifty plays, musicals, and one-woman shows, she specializes in non-traditional roles for women, especially those reclaiming famous lesbians whose stories have been distorted or erased from history....
A one woman-lesbian play. Joan returns to share her story with contemporary women. She tells her experiences with the highest levels of church, state, and military, and unmasks the brutal misogyny behind male institutions. ISBN 0-93-982106-0
1997An Army of AngelsPamela MarcantelA novel which depicts Joan of Arc according to the author's conception of her personality. ISBN 0-312-18042-X
1999Jeanne d'ArcMichel PeyramaureA novel in two parts (in French). ISBN 2-221-08922-7 and ISBN 2-221-08923-5.
2003Monstrous Regiment
Monstrous Regiment (novel)

Monstrous Regiment is the 31st novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. It takes its name from the anti-Catholic 16th century tract by John Knox, the full title of which is The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women....
Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John Pratchett, Officer of the Order of the British Empire is an England novelist, known for his frequently comical work in the fantasy genre....
Part of the Discworld
Discworld

Discworld is a comedy fantasy book series by the British author Terry Pratchett, set on Discworld , a Flat Earth balanced on the backs of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the back of a giant turtle, Discworld #Great A'Tuin, the star turtle....
 series, a fictional character styled after Joan of Arc dresses as a man to lead an army. ISBN 0-06-001316-8
2005Hire, or the Anger of JeanneRégine Deforges
Régine Deforges

R?gine Deforges is a French author, editor, director, and playwright.Born in Montmorillon, Vienne, she is sometimes called the "High Priestess of French erotic literature." Deforges was the first woman to own and operate a publishing house in France....
(In French). ISBN 2-213-62497-6
2006Rogue Angel SeriesAlex ArcherA series of action/adventure novels, the main character of which is the successor to Joan of Arc.


Operas, oratorios, and vocal works


Date Title Artist Genre Notes
1845Giovanna d'Arco
Giovanna d'Arco

Giovanna d'Arco is an operatic dramma lirico with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera....
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic music composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers in the 19th century....
operaPlot influenced by Schiller.
1873 - 1877Jeanne d'ArcText by Jules Barbier with music by Charles Gounod
Charles Gounod

Charles-Fran?ois Gounod was a French composer, best known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Rom?o et Juliette....
.
lyric drama in 5 actsN/A
1878The Maid of OrleansPiotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – ) was a Russian composer of the Romantic music era. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the current classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his Piano Concerto No....
operaPlot influenced by Schiller.
1939Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

Jeanne d'Arc au B?cher is an oratorio by Arthur Honegger originally commissioned by Ida Rubinstein. The title translates to, "Joan of Arc at the Stake." The drama takes place during the heroine's trial and execution, with flashbacks to her younger days....
Text by Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel

Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculpture Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith....
 with music by Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
dramatic oratorioThis deeply religious portrayal ends with the founder of the Inquisition accusing Joan's judges of heresy.
1953Ballade des Dames du temps jadisMusical adaptation by Georges Brassens
Georges Brassens

Georges Brassens was a France singer-songwriter.Georges Brassens was born in S?te , a town in southern France near Montpellier. Now an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his simple, elegant songs and articulate, diverse lyrics; indeed, he is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets....
 of a poem by François Villon
François Villon

Fran?ois Villon was a France poet, thief, and vagabond. He is perhaps best known for his Testaments and his Ballade des Pendus, written while in prison....
Art songThough little known outside France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, Brassens set a number of complex poems to music and often performed them himself.
1966Choruses from The Lark, play by Jean Anouilhmusic by Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein was a multi-Emmy-winning and Academy Award for Original Music Score nominated American Conductor , composer, author, music lecturer and Piano....
set of choral piecesPart of Bernstein's incidental score for a production of the play in an adaptation by Lillian Hellman
Lillian Hellman

Lillian Florence Hellman was an United States playwright, linked throughout her life with many Left-wing politics causes. She was romantically involved for 30 years with mystery novel and crime novel writer Dashiell Hammett , and was also a long-time friend and literary executor of author Dorothy Parker....
.
1971The Survival of St. Joan
The Survival of St. Joan

The Survival of St. Joan is a rock opera by Smoke Rise on a libretto by James Lineberger. To date, it has not been issued on compact disc....
Text by James Lineberger; music by Hank Ruffin and Gary Ruffinrock operaDeals with a legend of Joan escaping burning and kept in the home of a shepherd.
1994Voices of Light
Voices of Light

Voices of Light is a 1994 musical composition by Richard Einhorn. It was inspired by the silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc , which is also accompanied with a live performance....
Richard Einhorn
Richard Einhorn

Richard Einhorn is a modernism .Graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1975, studied musical composition and electronic music with Jack Beeson, Vladimir Ussachevsky, and Mario Davidovsky....
choral orchestral workInspired by the 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent film produced in France in 1928 in film. It is based on the trial records of Joan of Arc. The film was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Ren?e Jeanne Falconetti and Antonin Artaud....
, frequently performed during screenings of the film; uses sacred texts as well as texts by various medieval mystics, including Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen

Hildegard of Bingen , also known as Blessed Hildegard and Saint Hildegard, was a German people abbess, author, counselor, Linguistics, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, visionary and composer....
.


Images


Image:Joan parliament of paris.jpg|Clément de Fauquembergue, 1429 Image:Joan of arc miniature graded.jpg|15th century miniature Image:Joan Of Arc 2.jpg|late 15th century fresco Image:Joan of Arc on horseback.png|early 16th century

Date Title Artist Location Notes
10 May 1429 untitled Clément de Fauquembergue  Sketch in the margin of the register of the Parlement of Paris by Clément de Fauquembergue, 1429, drawn on the day that news arrived in Paris of the French victory at Orléans. Though Fauquembergue never saw her in person, this is the only extant depiction from her lifetime.
c. 1450 Le Champion des Dames Martin Lefranc  Miniature portrait in an illustrated manuscript in an anachronistic Biblical setting, with long hair, wearing armor and a long robe.
c. 1460 Chronique de Charles VII
Charles VII of France

File:Charles VII Franc a cheval 1422 1423.jpgCharles VII , called the Victorious or the Well-Served , was List of French monarchs from 1422 to his death, though he was initially opposed by Henry VI of England, whose Regent ruled much of France from Paris....
Jean Chartier  Miniature portrait in an illustrated manuscript, similar portrayal to Le Champion des Dames.
1484 Vigiles du Roi Charles VII   Miniature portrait in an illuminated manuscript, similar portrayal to Le Champion des Dames.
late 15th century untitled  Hermitage of Notre-Dame de Bermont, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
Fresco of two young women: one a peasant girl at prayer, the other dressed in male attire: possible depictions of Joan of Arc rediscovered underneath a later work. Joan of Arc was known to pray often at the site.
1557 Portrait of the Town Council of Orléans   Joan of Arc wears a robe with slashed sleeves and a plume (symbolic of victory in war) and holds a sword. This became a model for many later portraits.
1620 Joan of Arc at Prayer Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of an exuberant Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality....
North Carolina Museum of Art
North Carolina Museum of Art

The North Carolina Museum of Art is an art museum that houses the art collections of North Carolina. It is located in Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina and 70% of its budget is from private funds collected by the NC Museum of Art Foundation....
, Raleigh, NC
Raleigh, North Carolina

Raleigh is the Capital of the state of North Carolina and the List of North Carolina county seats of Wake County, North Carolina. Raleigh is known as the ?City of Oaks? for its many oaks....
 
1824 Jeanne d'Arc interrogated in prison by the cardinal of Winchester Paul Delaroche Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rouen
Rouen

Rouen is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and currently the capital of the Haute-Normandie r?gion in France....
oil on canvas 277 x 217 cm
1833 Jeanne d'Arc, in the presence of Charles VII, answers questions from churchmen about her visions and revelations Louvre
Louvre

The Louvre Museum , located in Paris, is a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Rive Droite of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement of Paris ....
, Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
Gillot Saint-Èvre 170 x 140 cm
1854 Jeanne at the coronation of Charles VII Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres  
1865 Joan of Arc at Prayer John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, Royal Academy was an English Painting and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood....
Private collection 
1879 Jeanne d'Arc Jules Bastien-Lepage
Jules Bastien-Lepage

Jules Bastien-Lepage , France Painting, was born in the village of Damvillers, Meuse and spent his childhood there.He first studied at Verdun-sur-Meuse, and prompted by a love of art went in 1867 to Paris, where he was admitted to the ?cole nationale sup?rieure des Beaux-Arts, working under Alexandre Cabanel....
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile, New York City in New York City, USA....
, New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
oil on canvas 100" x 110"
1886 Jeanne in adoration before the Virgin Eugène Grandin, based on a work by Momet Mehun-sur-Yèvre 
1880-1890 Jeanne d'Arc hears her voices Eugène Carrière
Eugène Carrière

Eug?ne Anatole Carri?re was a France Symbolism , Fin de si?cle artist. His work is best known for its brown monochrome palette. He was a close friend of the sculptor Auguste Rodin and his work influenced Matisse and Picasso ....
Musée d'Orsay
Musée d'Orsay

The Mus?e d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine, housed in the former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay. It holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and Fine art photography, and is probably best known for its extensive collection of impressionist masterpieces...
, Paris
 
1886-1890 Jeanne d'Arc, shepherdess Jules-Eugène Lenepveu Panthéon
Pantheon

Pantheon may refer to:*Pantheon , a word used to describe the set of gods of a particular religion, mythology, or fictional universe* A temple, dedicated to all gods, or to all the gods of a given religion...
, Paris
 
1886-1890 Jeanne d'Arc in armor before Orléans Jules-Eugène Lenepveu Panthéon, Paris 
1886-1890 Jeanne d'Arc in Rheims at the time of king Charles VII's coronation Jules-Eugène Lenepveu Panthéon, Paris 
1886-1890 Jeanne at the stake Jules-Eugène Lenepveu Panthéon, Paris 
c. 1870 Jeanne d'Arc arriving at Orléans Jean-Jacques Scherrer Musée Jeanne-d'Arc, Rouen
Rouen

Rouen is the historical capital city of Normandy, in northwestern France on the River Seine, and currently the capital of the Haute-Normandie r?gion in France....
 
? The departure of Jeanne d'Arc Jean-Jacques Scherrer Musée Jeanne-d'Arc, Vaucouleurs
Vaucouleurs

Vaucouleurs is a Communes of France in the Meuse Departments of France in Lorraine in northeastern France.Joan of Arc stayed in Vaucouleurs for several months during 1428 and 1429 while she sought permission to visit the royal court of Charles VII of France....
oil on canvas 430 x 320 cm
? Joan of Arc at Vaucouleurs C. R. Walter Musée Jeanne-d'Arc, Chinon
Chinon

Chinon is a Communes of France in the Indre-et-Loire Departments of France in central France.In the Middle Ages, Chinon developed especially during the reign of Henry II ....
 


Sculpture

Date Artist Location Notes
1852François Rude
François Rude

Fran?ois Rude was a France sculpture.Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's trade as a stovemaker till the age of sixteen, but received training in drawing from Fran?ois Devosges, where he learned that a strong, simple contour was an invaluable ingredient in the plastic arts In 1809 he went to Paris from the Dijon school of art, and...
Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, Jardin du Luxembourg
Standing figure.
1855Denis Foyatier, with bas relief pedestal by Vital DubrayOrléans
Orléans

Orl?ans is a city in north-central France, about 130 km southwest of Paris. It is the capital of the Loiret Departments of France and of the Centre R?gion in France....
, place du Martroi
Bronze equestrian statue.
1874Emmanuel Frémiet
Emmanuel Frémiet

Emmanuel Fr?miet was a France sculpture. He is famous for his sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in Suez....
Philadelphia, Fairmount Park
Fairmount Park

Fairmount Park is the municipal park system of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It consists of 63 parks, with 9,200 acres , all overseen by the Fairmount Park Commission....
Equestrian statue. Made from a plaster mold commissioned in 1874 by Napoleon III and originally located in Paris; a copy of the Paris statue was commissioned by Philadelphia, but Frémiet sent the original, as he had replaced the Paris statue with a revised one. . ,
1882Frederic LerouxCompiègne
Compiègne

Compi?gne is a Communes of France in the Oise Departments of France in northern France.The city is located along the Oise River. Its inhabitants are called Compi?gnois....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 
1889Paul DuBois
Paul Dubois

Paul Dubois was a significant France Sculpture and Painting.He was born at Nogent-sur-Seine. He studied law to please his family, and art to please himself, and finally adopted the latter, and placed himself in the atelier of Armand Toussaint , a former pupil of Pierre Jean David....
Rheims, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
Equestrian statue.
1891Marius MerciéDomrémy-la-Pucelle
Domrémy-la-Pucelle

Domr?my-la-Pucelle is a village and Communes of France of the Vosges Departments of France, in Lorraine , France. In 1999, its population was 167....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 
1892Louis-Ernest Barrias
Louis-Ernest Barrias

Louis-Ernest Barrias was a France sculptor of the Acad?mie des Beaux-Arts.He was born in Paris into a family of artists. His father was a porcelain-painter, and his older brother F?lix-Joseph Barrias a well-known painter....
Bonsecours
Bonsecours

Bonsecours is a communes of France in the Seine-Maritime departments of France of the Haute-Normandie region of northern France....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
Standing figure in white marble and gold leaf. In 1990 the original was moved to the church basilica and its gold leaf was removed. A copy in gold leaf now occupies the site where the original once stood.
1895Paul DuBoisParis
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, Place St. Augustin
Equestrian Statue located in front of the Eglise St. Augustin. Copies were placed in other cities in France, such as Rheims and Strasbourg.
1899Emmanuel Frémiet
Emmanuel Frémiet

Emmanuel Fr?miet was a France sculpture. He is famous for his sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in Suez....
Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, Place des Pyramides
Place des Pyramides

Place des Pyramides is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris of Paris in France. It is sited in the middle of rue de Rivoli, Paris, at its crossroads with rue des Pyramides and Avenue du General Lemonnier, at the western corner of the jardin des Tuileries....
Equestrian statue. Originally ommissioned in 1874 by Napoleon III; this is a revised version of the statue Frémiet made at that time.
1900Prosper d'ÉpinayRheims, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
Standing figure. Donated to Rheims cathedral in 1909.
1907Emmanuel FrémietState Library of Victoria
State Library of Victoria

The State Library of Victoria is the central library of the States and territories of Australia of Victoria , Australia, located in Melbourne. It is on the block bounded by Swanston Street, La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Russell Street, Melbourne, and Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Streets, in the northern centre of the Melbourne central busi...
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
Equestrian statue, replica of the Emmanuel Frémiet
Emmanuel Frémiet

Emmanuel Fr?miet was a France sculpture. He is famous for his sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in Suez....
 statue in Paris.
1915Anna Hyatt Huntington
Anna Hyatt Huntington

File:Anna Hyatt Huntington.jpgAnna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington was an United States sculptor. She was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, Riverside Park
Riverside Park

Riverside Park refers to several locations:* Riverside Park * Riverside Park , Buffalo, New York, former home of the Buffalo Bisons baseball team...
 at 93rd Street
Equestrian statue. This was the first public statue in the city to be dedicated to a woman (as opposed to idealized concepts such as Liberty and Victory). Information from the New York Public Art Curriculum site: .
1915Paul Manship
Paul Manship

Paul Howard Manship was a prominent United States Sculpture of the 20th century.Paul Manship began his art studies at the St. Paul School of Art in Minnesota....
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a museum in Washington, D.C. with an extensive collection of United States of America art.Part of the Smithsonian Institution, the museum has a broad variety of American art that covers all regions and art movements found in the United States....
Medal, showing an equestrian figure on the obverse and a figure at the stake on the reverse.
After 1921 Matane
Matane

Matane may refer to:*the city of Matane, Quebec*the Matane Regional County Municipality, Quebec in Quebec*the Matane River*the provincial electoral district of Matane ...
, Québec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
, church of St. Joan of Arc
Standing figure.
1922Paul DuBoisWashington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
, Meridian Hill Park
Meridian Hill Park

Meridian Hill Park, also known unofficially as Malcolm X Park, is located in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Columbia Heights, Washington, D.C....
Bronze copy of the statue by DuBois
Paul Dubois

Paul Dubois was a significant France Sculpture and Painting.He was born at Nogent-sur-Seine. He studied law to please his family, and art to please himself, and finally adopted the latter, and placed himself in the atelier of Armand Toussaint , a former pupil of Pierre Jean David....
 at Rheims Cathedral.
1920 New Orleans, Louisiana
Louisiana

The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
, St. Louis Cathedral
Standing figure. It was donated to the Cathedral by "The Sodality of Saint Joan of Arc."
cast 1924Emmanuel FrémietPortland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon

Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States United States, near the confluence of the Willamette River and Columbia River rivers in the state of Oregon....
, Laurelhurst neighborhood
Equestrian statue. It was erected as a tribute to the fallen soldiers of World War I and is a replica of the Frémiet statue at Place des Pyramides in Paris.
1947 Laval (Québec)Standing figure.
?LansonJargeau
Jargeau

Jargeau is a Communes of France in the Loiret Departments of France in north-central France.It lies about south of Paris....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
place du Martroy
Standing figure
??Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica - Montreal
Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
, Québec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
Standing figure, to the left of the altar.
1972Emmanuel FrémietDecatur Street, French Quarter - New Orleans, Louisiana
Louisiana

The State of Louisiana is a U.S. state located in the U.S. Southern States of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans....
Equestrian statue. It was a gift from the People of France to the City of New Orleans and is a replica of the Frémiet statue at Place des Pyramides in Paris.


Films

 Actress Renée Jeanne Falconetti
Renée Jeanne Falconetti

Ren?e Jeanne Falconetti , sometimes credited as Maria Falconetti, Marie Falconetti, Ren?e Maria Falconetti, or, simply, Falconetti, was a France stage and film actor, notable for her role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent film, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc....
 in a scene from the 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent film produced in France in 1928 in film. It is based on the trial records of Joan of Arc. The film was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Ren?e Jeanne Falconetti and Antonin Artaud....
. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of the silent era, it was initially banned in Britain.
Date Title Country Notes1898Jeanne d'ArcFranceshort film directed by Georges Hatot
1900Jeanne d'ArcFranceshort film directed by George Méliès starring Jeanne d'Alcy
1908Jeanne d'ArcFrancedirected by Albert Capellani, starring Léontine Massart
1908Giovanna d'ArcoItalydirected by Mario Caserini starring Maria Gasperini, based on Schiller's play
1913Giovanna d'ArcoItalydirected by Ubaldo Maria Del Colle starring Maria Jacobini
1917Joan the Woman
Joan the Woman

Joan the Woman is a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It is based on the life of Joan of Arc. This film was the first to use the Handschiegl Color Process for certain scenes....
USAdirected by Cecil B. DeMille
Cecil B. DeMille

Cecil Blount DeMille was an Academy Award-winning United States film director. He was renowned for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies....
, starring Geraldine Farrar
Geraldine Farrar

Geraldine Farrar was a soprano opera singer and film actress. She had a large following among young women, who were nicknamed "Gerry-flappers"....
, with a framework set in the trenches of World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
1927Saint JoanUSADirected by Widgey R. Newman, starring Sybil Thorndike
Sybil Thorndike

Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike Order of the Companions of Honour Order of the British Empire was a United Kingdom actor. A biography of Dame Sybil by Sheridan Morley was published in 1977....
. Based on a scene from Shaw's play.
1928The Passion of Joan of Arc
The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc is a silent film produced in France in 1928 in film. It is based on the trial records of Joan of Arc. The film was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Ren?e Jeanne Falconetti and Antonin Artaud....
FranceDirected by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer

Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jr. was a Denmark born film director of Sweden descent. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema....
, starring Renée Jeanne Falconetti
Renée Jeanne Falconetti

Ren?e Jeanne Falconetti , sometimes credited as Maria Falconetti, Marie Falconetti, Ren?e Maria Falconetti, or, simply, Falconetti, was a France stage and film actor, notable for her role as Joan of Arc in Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1928 silent film, La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc....
. Review for the 2002 DVD release:.
1929The Marvelous Life of Joan of ArcFrancedirected by Marco de Gastines, starring Simone Genevois
1935Das Mädchen JohannaGermanydirected by Gustav Ucicky, starring Angela Salloker
1944De Jeanne d'Arc à Philippe PétainFrancedocumentary narrated by Sacha Guitry
1948Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (1948 film)

Joan of Arc is a 1948 in film Technicolor film directed by Victor Fleming; starring Ingrid Bergman as the Joan of Arc. It was produced by Walter Wanger....
USAdirected by Victor Fleming
Victor Fleming

Victor Fleming was an Academy Award-winning United States film director....
, starring Ingrid Bergman, based on the Maxwell Anderson
Maxwell Anderson

James Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist. He was a founding member of The Playwrights Company....
 play Joan of Lorraine
1954Giovanna d'Arco al RogoItalydirected by Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director. Rossellini was one of the most important directors of Italian neorealism film, contributing films such as Roma citt? aperta to the movement....
, starring Ingrid Bergman, based on the oratorio by Paul Claudel
Paul Claudel

Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculpture Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholic faith....
 and Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger

Arthur Honegger was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris. He was a member of Les Six. His most frequently performed work is probably the orchestral work Pacific 231, which is interpreted as imitating the sound of a steam engine locomotive....
1954DestiniesFrancea film in sketches directed by Jean Delannoy, starring Michèle Morgan
1956JehanneFranceshort film directed by Robert Enrico
1957Saint Joan
Saint Joan (1957 film)

Saint Joan is a 1957 film adapted from the George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan about the life of Joan of Arc. The restructured screenplay by Graham Greene, directed by Otto Preminger, begins with the play's last scene, which then becomes the springboard for a long flashback, from which the main story is told....
USAdirected by Otto Preminger
Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austrian-born Jewish film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career....
, starring Jean Seberg
Jean Seberg

Jean Dorothy Seberg was an American actress. She starred in 34 films in Hollywood and in France. Seberg became even more of an icon after her roles in numerous French films and the tragedy of her turbulent life and eventual suicide....
, based on the George Bernard Shaw play
1957The Story of Mankind
The Story of Mankind (1957 film)

The Story of Mankind is a 1957 in film fantasy film, based on the nonfiction book The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon. It is notable mostly for its campiness, and for featuring an ensemble of notable Hollywood performers in the last years of their careers....
USAdirected by Irwin Allen, featuring Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born United States actress and scientist. Though known primarily for her acting , she also co-invented an early form of spread spectrum, a key to modern wireless communication....
 in one sequence as Joan of Arc. The film is based on a book by Hendrik Willem van Loon
Hendrik Willem van Loon

Hendrik Willem van Loon was a Dutch-American historian and journalist....
.
1957The LarkUSAlive TV production in English of L'Alouette, starring Julie Harris
Julie Harris

Julie Harris is a American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards and three Emmy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Awards....
, who also played the role on Broadway
1958Saint JoanUKTV adaptation of Shaw's play, starring Siobhan McKenna
1960Jeanne D'Arc auf dem ScheiterhaufenGermanymovie for television starring Margot Trooger, another version of the Honegger oratorio
1961Jeanne au VitrailFranceshort film directed by Claude Antoine 
1962Procès de Jeanne d'Arc
Procès de Jeanne d'Arc

The Trial of Joan of Arc is a 1962 historical film by the France film director Robert Bresson. Joan of Arc is played by Florence Delay.As usual in Bresson's mature films, The Trial of Joan of Arc stars non-professional performers and is filmed in an extremely spare, restrained style....
Francedirected by Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson

Robert Bresson was a French film director known for his spiritual, ascetic style....
, starring Florence Delay
1962Histoire de JeanneFranceshort film directed by Francis Lacassin 
1966Fall Jeanne d'Arc, DerGermanyTV movie directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Kathrin Schmid
1967Saint JoanUnited StatesNBC television adaptation of Shaw's play, starring Geneviève Bujold
Geneviève Bujold

Genevi?ve Bujold is an Academy Award-nominated Canada actor....
 
1968St. JoanUKanother television adaptation of Shaw's play, starring Janet Suzman
Janet Suzman

Janet Suzman is a South African actress and director....
 
1970Nachalo - The DébutUSSRdirected by Gleb Panfilov, starring Inna ?hurikova, satiric comedy 
1983Joan of ArcUKdirected by Gina Newson with commentary by Marina Warner
Marina Warner

Marina Sarah Warner, Order of the British Empire, British Academy is a British novelist, short story writer, historian and mythography. She is known for her many non-fiction books relating in various ways to feminism and mythology....
 
1989Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is an United States comedy film/science fiction movie in which two slackers time travel in order to assemble a menagerie of historical figures for their high school history presentation....
USAJane Wiedlin
Jane Wiedlin

Jane Wiedlin is an American musician and actor. She is best known as the rhythm guitarist of the all-female multi-platinum New Wave music band The Go-Go's in the 1980's....
 portrayed Joan of Arc. Memorable lines include "Who was Joan of Arc?" "Noah's wife?" and "Welcome aboard, Miss of Arc!"
1989Giovanna d'ArcoItalyVerdi's opera directed by Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog is an Academy Award-nominated German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.He is often associated with the German New Wave movement , along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schl?ndorff, Hans-J?rgen Syberberg, Wim Wenders and others....
 starring Susan Dunn
Susan Dunn

Susan Dunn is an award winning American spinto soprano who has graced many of the world's finest opera houses, concert halls, and theaters in operas, oratorios, and concert performances....
, based on Schiller's play
1990Jeanne d'Ark - visjon gjennom eldNorwaytelevision movie written by Juni Dahr and John Morrow
1993Jeanne d'Arc au bûcherJapanTV movie of the Honegger-Claudel oratorio (in French), starring Marthe Keller
1994Jeanne la PucelleFrancedirected by Jacques Rivette
Jacques Rivette

Jacques Rivette is a French film director.With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette is considered to be the most experimental of the French New Wave directors....
, starring Sandrine Bonnaire
Sandrine Bonnaire

Sandrine Bonnaire is an internationally renowned France actress.Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children....
1999The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc is a 1999 in film list of historical drama films directed by Luc Besson. The screenplay was written by Besson and Andrew Birkin, and the original music score was composed by ?ric Serra....
USAdirected by Luc Besson
Luc Besson

Luc Besson is a French film director, writer and film producer. He is the creator of EuropaCorp film company....
, starring Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich

Milla Jovovich is a supermodel, actress, musician, and fashion designer of Russia-Serbia- Montenegro origin. Over her career, she has appeared in a number of science fiction and action themed films, for which music channel VH1 has referred to her as the "reigning queen of kick-butt"....
1999Joan of ArcUSAtelevision mini-series starring Leelee Sobieski
Leelee Sobieski

Leelee Sobieski is an American actress. Sobieski rose to fame in her mid-teens with her appearance in the movie Deep Impact . She has received an Emmy nomination for the 1999 TV movie Joan of Arc , and two Golden Globe nominations for Joan of Arc and the TV movie Uprising ....
2004Jeanne d'ArcFrancetelevision production in ballet directed by Laurent Preyale
2005Reefer Madness
Reefer Madness (2005 film)

Reefer Madness, aka Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical premiered on April 16, 2005, on the Showtime cable Television network. It is a television movie version of the Reefer Madness , and stars Alan Cumming as the Lecturer, Ana Gasteyer as Mae, and Kristen Bell as Mary....
USATV movie featuring Christine Lakin
Christine Lakin

Christine Helen Lakin is an United States actress. She is known for her role as Alicia "Al" Lambert on the 1990s American Broadcasting Company/CBS situation comedy Step by Step and as Joan of Arc in Showtime's Reefer Madness ....
 as the Emcee of Jesus Christ's Heavenly lounge act, who urges Jimmy to stop using drugs. Memorable line: "No Christian martyr works it harder!"


In popular culture


Music

Date Title Artist/Group Notes
1970Songs of Love and Hate
Songs of Love and Hate

Songs of Love and Hate is Canada singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen's third album. It was mainly recorded in Columbia Studio A, Nashville, from September 22 to 26, 1970....
 (album)
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963....
Contains a song titled "Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (Leonard Cohen song)

"Joan of Arc" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. It was released as a single in March 1971 from his third album, Songs of Love and Hate....
," and lyrics in the song "Last Year's Man" that refers to her: "I met a lady, she was playing with her soldiers in the dark, oh one by one she had to tell them that her name was Joan of Arc."
1981Architecture & Morality
Architecture & Morality

Architecture & Morality is an album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1981.It is the group's most commercially and critically successful album, selling over 3 million copies....
 (album)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are a synthpop group whose founding members are originally from the Wirral Peninsula, England. OMD record for Virgin Records ....
Contains two songs about Joan of Arc titled "Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (OMD song)

"Joan of Arc" is a song by British band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark released as the second single released from their third studio album Architecture & Morality....
" and "Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans)
Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)

"Joan of Arc " is a song by British band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and is the third single released from their third studio album Architecture & Morality....
", both were released as singles
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
.
1986Bigmouth Strikes Again
Bigmouth Strikes Again

"Bigmouth Strikes Again" is a song by The Smiths. It appears on their third album The Queen Is Dead and was the lead single from the album, reaching #26 in the UK Singles Chart in 1986....
 (song)
The Smiths
The Smiths

The Smiths were an English Rock music band formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce ....
Includes the lyrics, "And now I know how Joan of Arc felt, as the flames rose to her Roman nose and her Walkman
Walkman

Walkman is an audio cassette player used to market its portable Audio frequency and video players. The original Walkman introduced a change in music listening habits, allowing people to carry their own choice of music with them....
 started to melt," and "And now I know how Joan of Arc felt, as the flames rose to her Roman nose and her hearing aid started to melt."
1993 Houdini
Houdini (album)

Houdini is an album by Melvins released in 1993 on Atlantic Records. It is regarded as one of the band's more accessible records. Melvins were one of Kurt Cobain's favorite bands; he is given co-production credit alongside Melvins six tracks....
 (album)
The Melvins
The Melvins

The Melvins are an American sludge metal band that usually perform as a power trio. Aside from the 1984 incarnation which included Buzz, Mike Dillard on drums, and Matt Lukin, Singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer Dale Crover are constant members....
Contains a song titled "Joan of Arc".
formed 1995Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc (band)

Joan of Arc are an experimental indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois. They formed in 1995, following the break up of Cap'n Jazz.Singer Tim Kinsella has been the only permanent member of the group; he has also recorded as a solo artist....
The name of an indie rock
Indie rock

Indie rock is alternative rock that most notably exists in the Independent music underground music scene. It primarily refers to rock musicians that are or were unsigned, or have signed to independent record labels, rather than major record labels....
 band from Chicago
1996"Joan of Arc" (album)Radha Sahar
first release 1998Janne Da Arc
Janne Da Arc

is a J-Rock band, hailing from Hirakata, Osaka, Japan. The band's name is often seen shortened to either "Janne" or "JDA"....
Japanese rock band named after the character in the manga Devilman
Devilman

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Go Nagai which originally started as an anime adaptation of the concept of Nagai's previous manga series, Mao Dante....
 by Go Nagai
Go Nagai

is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror and erotica.He made his professional debut in 1967 with Meakashi Polikichi, but is best known for creating the seminal works Cutie Honey, Devilman, and Mazinger Z in the 1970s....
1999"She’s So High
She’s So High

She's So High is the name of:*She's So High *She's So High ...
" (song)
Tal Bachman
Tal Bachman

Talmage "Tal" Bachman is a Canada singer-songwriter and musician from Vancouver, British Columbia. He is best known for his late 1999 hit, "She's So High ," from his self-titled 1999 album....
Includes the lyrics, "She's so high/ like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite
Aphrodite

Aphrodite is the classical Greek mythology goddess of love, sex, and beauty. According to Greek oral poet Hesiod, she was born when Uranus was castrated by his son Cronus....
", which speaks of the focus woman as being as smart as Cleopatra, as brave as Joan of Arc, and as beautiful as Aphrodite.
2002"Did Anybody Sleep With Joan Of Arc?" (song)Elton John
Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
 (music), Bernie Taupin
Bernie Taupin

Bernie Taupin is an England lyricist, singer and poet, most famous for his collaboration with Elton John....
 (lyrics)
A summary of Joan of Arc's life.
 "Free & Easy" (song)Ayumi Hamasaki
Ayumi Hamasaki

is a Japanese singer-songwriter and former actress. Also called Ayu by her fans, Hamasaki has been dubbed the "Empress of Pop" due to her popularity and widespread influence in Japan....
Japanese singer and songwriter, based the lyrics and music video for her single from her interpretation on Joan of Arc’s feelings. She also produced a photobook entitled "Hamasaki Republic - Free & Easy" where she was dressed as a warrior, a nun, and a knight.
2004A Lifetime of Temporary Relief (album)Low (band)
Low (band)

Low is an United States indie rock group from Duluth, Minnesota, formed in 1993. As of 2008, the group is composed of Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker , both founding members, and Steve Garrington ....
Minnesota-based indie rock
Indie rock

Indie rock is alternative rock that most notably exists in the Independent music underground music scene. It primarily refers to rock musicians that are or were unsigned, or have signed to independent record labels, rather than major record labels....
 band released two versions of their song "Joan of Arc."
2005Plague Angel
Plague Angel

Plague Angel is the ninth studio album by Swedish black metal band Marduk . It was recorded and mixed at Endarker Studio in September 2004 and released that November by Regain Records....
 (album)
Marduk
Marduk (band)

Marduk is a black metal band from Norrk?ping, Sweden. The band formed in 1991 and released their first record that year, placing them among the pioneers of Swedish black metal....
Black metal
Black metal

Black metal is an extreme metal subgenre of Heavy metal music. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure....
 band from Sweden
Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
, have a song entitled "Everything Bleeds", which is about Jeanne d'Arc.
2005Aerial
Aerial (album)

Aerial is the eighth studio album by the British singer Kate Bush. Released on November 7, 2005, it was her first album since 1993. The album peaked at no.3 in the UK and has been certified Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry....
 (album)
Kate Bush
Kate Bush

Kate Bush is an England singer-songwriter, musician and record producer. Her eclectic musical style and Idiosyncrasy lyrics have made her one of England's most successful solo female performers of the past 30 years having sold over 20,000,000 records worldwide....
Sings about Joan of Arc in "Joanni."
2005Jeanne d'Arc (album)Thy Majestie
Thy Majestie

Thy Majestie is an Italy power metal band that formed in 2000. Their music is typically cinematic, epic, symphonic, progressive and darker than typical power metal....
Concept album about Joan of Arc by a power metal
Power metal

Power metal is a style of heavy metal music combining characteristics of traditional heavy metal with thrash metal or speed metal, often within symphonic context....
 band from Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
.
2006Jeanne d'Arc (album)Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a Germany electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member....
Musical tribute to Joan of Arc performed on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the French Cathedral in Berlin
Französischer Dom

Franz?sischer Dom is a Evangelical Church in Germany Church located in Berlin on the Gendarmenmarkt across from the Deutscher Dom . The first parts of it were built from 1701 to 1705 by the Huguenot community and was modelled after the destroyed Huguenot church in Charenton-Saint-Maurice, France....
.
2008The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter

The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter is the fifth full-length album by United States singer-songwriter Josh Ritter. It was released in the U.S....
 (album)
Josh Ritter
Josh Ritter

Josh Ritter is an United States singer-songwriter....
The song "To the Dogs or Whoever" (the album's opening track) mentions Joan of Arc and other historical women


Television

Date Series Notes Ref
1972 - 1978Maude
Maude (TV series)

Maude is a half-hour United States television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972 until April 22, 1978....
CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 sitcom. The theme song
And Then There's Maude

"And Then There's Maude " was the theme song for the television series Maude , written by Marilyn Bergman and Alan Bergman and Dave Grusin, and performed by Donny Hathaway....
 includes the line 'Joan of Arc with the Lord to guide her/she was a sister who really cooked.'
1995 - 1998Wishbone
Wishbone (TV series)

Wishbone is a fictional television show featuring a Jack Russell Terrier of the same name. The show originally aired from March 1 1995 to June 1 1998 in the United States on PBS....
The central premise of the series is a dog who daydreams about stories from classical literature. Episode 11, Bone of Arc, is based on Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
's Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte who is identified further as Joan's Page and secretary....
; usually portraying the lead character, Wishbone instead portrays Louis de Conte.
2000 - 2002Witchblade
Witchblade (TV series)

Following a pilot film in August 2000, the cable television network Turner Network Television premiered a Witchblade television series based on the Witchblade Top Cow Productions comic book series in 2001 in television....
TNT
Turner Network Television

TNT is an United States Cable television network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner....
 series based on the Witchblade
Witchblade

Witchblade is an USA comic book Ongoing series published by Top Cow Productions, an imprint of , from 1995 in comics until present. The series was created by Top Cow editors Marc Silvestri and David Wohl, writers Brian Haberlin and Christina Z, and artist Michael Turner ....
 comic book series.
2003Clone High
Clone High

| show_name = Clone High | image = The main characters of Clone High: Mr. Lynn Butlertron, JFK , Cleopatra , Abe , Joan , Gandhi , and Cinnamon J. Scudworth ...
An animated MTV
MTV

MTV is an United States cable television network based in Media of New York City. Launched on August 1, 1981, the original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJ ....
 series focusing on a high school populated entirely by clones of famous historical figures. Joan of Arc is one of the female leads, who has a crush on her friend Abe Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
 and is a goth
Goth subculture

The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre....
 (something she cites in the third episode as the byproduct of inferiority complex brought on by being the clone of a famous person).
2003 - 2005Joan of Arcadia
Joan of Arcadia

Joan of Arcadia is an Emmy-nominated American television fantasy/family drama, which originally aired on Fridays, 8-9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS from September 26, 2003 until April 22, 2005....
CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 series theme inspired by Joan of Arc, features a girl about Joan's age who speaks with God and uses His influence to do good deeds in her community. Washington Times article: .
2004Wonderfalls
Wonderfalls

Wonderfalls is a television program that was featured on the Fox Broadcasting Company television network in 2004.The show centres on Jaye Tyler , a recent Brown University graduate with a philosophy degree, who holds a dead-end job as a sales clerk at a Niagara Falls gift shop....
Fox Television series theme inspired by Joan of Arc.
2006 - 2007Heroes (TV series)
Heroes (TV series)

Heroes is an American science fiction dramatic programming created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The series tells the stories of ordinary individuals from around the world who inexplicably develop Superpower , and their roles in preventing disasters, usually foreseen in images produced by precognitive painter...
NBC drama. The metafictional comic book, "9th Wonders" features a character called St. Joan. It is strongly implied that muscle mimic, Monica Dawson is meant to fill this role in the series.

Video games and computer games

Date Game Notes
1988Joan of Arc - Siege and the Sword / Jeanne d'ArcHistorically based strategy and action game for Amiga, ST and PC.
1992World Heroes
World Heroes

World Heroes is a versus fighting game series created by Alpha Denshi for the Neo Geo , though some of the games in the series were also ported to the Sega Saturn, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and Game Boy....
 series
NeoGeo
Neo Geo (console)

The Neo Geo is a Cartridge -based Arcade game and home video game system released in 1990 by Japanese game company SNK Playmore. The system offered comparatively colorful 2D computer graphics Computer graphics and high-quality sound....
 fighting game. The character Janne D'Arc, a beautiful French swordwoman with pyrokinetic powers, is very much inspired by Joan of Arc.
1995Soul Edge
Soul Edge

is the first installment in the Soul series series of fighting games developed and published by Namco. It was initially released in the video arcade in 1996 in video gaming....
Fighting game released by Namco
Namco

, from NAkamura Manufacturing COmpany, is an amusement company based in Japan, best known overseas for video games development. On September 29 2005, Namco officially merged with Japanese toymaker Bandai to form Namco Bandai, one of the largest entertainment companies in Japan.Namco became a wholly owned subsidiary of the holdin...
 about a sword full of evil spirits. The character Sophitia Alexandra shares a similar story to Joan of Arc.
1999Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings
Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings

Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings is a real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft. Released in 1999 for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, it was the second game in the Age of Empires series....
A playable character in one of the major campaigns.
2000Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark

Perfect Dark is a 2000 first-person shooter video game for the Nintendo 64 game console. The game was developed and published by Rare , creators of the multimillion-selling GoldenEye 007, an earlier first-person shooter with which Perfect Dark shares many gameplay features....
Nintendo 64
Nintendo 64

The , often abbreviated as N64, is Nintendo's third home video game console for the international market. Named for its 64-bit CPU, it was released on June 23, 1996 in Japan, September 29, 1996 in North America, March 1, 1997 in Europe and Australia, September 1, 1997 in France and December 10, 1997 in Brazil....
 game. The central character is named Joanna Dark
Joanna Dark

Joanna Dark is the fictional protagonist of the Perfect Dark video game franchise developed by Rare . In the games, Dark acts as an elite mercenary who specializes in industrial espionage....
, a play on Jeanne d'Arc.
2001Civilization III
Civilization III

Sid Meier's Civilization III is a turn-based strategy game computer game by Firaxis Games, the successor of Civilization II and followed by Civilization IV....
The Leader of France's civilization is Joan of Arc.
2002La Pucelle: Tactics
La Pucelle: Tactics

La Pucelle: Tactics, released in Japan as , is a tactical role-playing game for the PlayStation 2, developed by Nippon Ichi. It was released in Japan in January 2002, and in North America by Mastiff in May 2004....
PlayStation
PlayStation

The PlayStation is a 32-bit history of video game consoles video game console released by Sony Computer Entertainment in December .The PlayStation was the first of the ubiquitous PlayStation ....
 game. The title is an allusion to Joan of Arc. Most of the character and place names within the game are French, but the game scenario is unrelated fantasy.
2004Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc
Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc

Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc is a historically-based computer game. Developed and published by Enlight, it was released in 2004. The player assumes the persona of Joan of Arc and leads the French in their attempt to win the Hundred Year's War....
PC game, title character.
2006Age of Empires: The Age of Kings
Age of Empires: The Age of Kings

Age of Empires: The Age of Kings is a turn-based strategy video game developed by Backbone Entertainment and published by Majesco for the Nintendo DS Handheld game console video game console....
Nintendo DS game major playable character.
2006Jeanne d'Arc
Jeanne d'Arc (video game)

Jeanne d'Arc is a tactical role-playing game developed by Level-5 and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable....
PSP game, Title character in a fantasy universe loosely based on the historical story.
2007Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War
Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War

Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War is a video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms. It is being published by Koei and developed by Omega Force....
PS3 game, Xbox 360 game, major character and leader of the French troops.
2008Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Soulstorm
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Soulstorm

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Soulstorm is the third expansion pack to the IBM PC compatible-based Real-time strategy Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series developed by Iron Lore Entertainment....
PC game, the Sisters of Battle race is based on Joan of Arc
2008Atlantica Online
Atlantica Online

Atlantica Online is a 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing game being developed by NDOORS Corporation. The international English version, available worldwide, is distributed by the US subsidiary company NDOORS Interactive, Inc.....
PC MMORPG
MMORPG

A massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of computer role-playing games in which a large number of player interact with one another in a virtual world....
, Hero Mercenary, evolved form of "Lady Knight" Mercenary


Comics and animation

Date Title Format Notes Ref
1995 - 1996JeanneComicThree volume work set in the Hundred Years' War
Hundred Years' War

The Hundred Years' War was a prolonged conflict lasting from 1337 to 1453 between two royal houses for the French throne, which was vacant with the extinction of the senior House of Capet line of French kings....
 whose central character's life parallels that of Joan of Arc. By Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Yoshikazu Yasuhiko

, born December 9, 1947) is a well-known animator and mangaka in the anime industry.Yasuhiko dropped out of Hirosaki University and was hired by Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Productions in 1970 as an animator....
, based on story by Chojun Otani (Japanese)
 
1995 - 1996D'arc: Histoire de Jeanne D'arcComicTwo volume fantasy
Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three ....
 retelling the story of Joan of Arc. Art by Katsuya Kondo
Katsuya Kondo

is a mangaka, character designer, animator and animation director born June 2, 1963 in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. He is most well known for his character design work on the Studio Ghibli films Kiki's Delivery Service and I Can Hear the Sea, as well as the PlayStation game Jade Cocoon....
 and story by Ken'ichi Sakemi.
 
1995 - presentWitchblade
Witchblade

Witchblade is an USA comic book Ongoing series published by Top Cow Productions, an imprint of , from 1995 in comics until present. The series was created by Top Cow editors Marc Silvestri and David Wohl, writers Brian Haberlin and Christina Z, and artist Michael Turner ....
Comic, TV seriesJoan of Arc is a blade wielder.
1998 - 2000Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne
Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne

is a fantasy shojo manga by Arina Tanemura. It was initially called Phantom-Thief Jeanne by its North American licensor, CMX Manga, before the title was changed to Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne; the anime adaptation is called Jeanne, the Kamikaze Thief on the Toei Animation English language website....
Comic and AnimationThe reincarnation of Joan of Arc, the gymnastic champion Maron Kusakabe, is the main character. She uses her God-given powers and arsenal of push-pins to trap demons who hide in works of art. Arina Tanemura
Arina Tanemura

is a Japanese people mangaka who does mainly Shojo manga. Her debut work was a one-shot chapter entitled The Style of the Second Love, which is contained in Short-Tempered Melancholic....
, writer (comic edition).
1998 - 2000Histeria!
Histeria!

Histeria! is an United States animated television series of the late-1990s, created by Tom Ruegger at Warner Bros. Animation. Unlike other similar shows by Warner Bros., Histeria!s purpose was not simply to entertain, but to also attempt to teach history as well, a residual effect of the network having to meet the...
AnimationWB
Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. is one of the world's largest film producer of film and television.It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank, California and New York City....
 animated series that parodies a variety of figures from history. Joan of Arc is a regular character, voiced by Laraine Newman
Laraine Newman

Laraine Newman is an United States comedienne and actor.Newman was born in Los Angeles, California, California and attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California....
. She constantly extinguishes fires that spring up around her. She talks with a Valley Girl
Valley girl

Valley Girl is a term referred to affluent upper-middle class girls living in the bedroom community neighborhoods of San Fernando Valley.A Valley Girl can be described as materialistic, self-conscious, dodgy, self-centered, hedonistic, physical attractiveness and sometimes sexually Promiscuity....
 accent and introduces herself as "like, I'm Joan, Joan of Arc".
1998 - 2004Shaman King
Shaman King

, also known as "Mankin", is a manga and anime series by Hiroyuki Takei. The manga ended prematurely in Japan with 32 volumes in total. The anime concluded its run with a total of 64 episodes....
AnimationThe leader of the group X-Laws, Iron Maiden Jeanne
Iron Maiden Jeanne

Iron Maiden Jeanne is a fictional character from the anime series Shaman King. She is voiced by Yui Horie in the Japanese version. She was born on March 2, 1990 in Mont Saint-Michel, France, and her blood type is AB....
, is a French girl who receives a divine revelation while praying in church that she must purge an evil force or the world will be destroyed.
 
March 17, 2002The Simpsons
The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
AnimationIn episode "Tales from the Public Domain
Tales from the Public Domain

?Tales from the Public Domain? is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons? List of The Simpsons episodes#Season 13 . The episode aired on March 17, 2002 in the US....
," Lisa Simpson plays Joan of Arc and Milhouse plays the Dauphin, after Homer reads about her in a children's book. However, when Homer gets to the part where she was burned at the stake, Lisa says, "Was she killed?" and Marge runs in and says, "No, at the last second, a handsome prince rode up on a horse, saved her, and they were married and lived happily ever after!" She then tore the page out, ate it, and says, "Easier to chew than that Bambi
Bambi

Bambi is a 1942 animated feature produced by Walt Disney and originally released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on August 13 1942. The fifth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon, the film is based on the 1923 book Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Austrian author Felix Salten....
 video!" Episode synopsis: .
2002 - 2003Clone High
Clone High

| show_name = Clone High | image = The main characters of Clone High: Mr. Lynn Butlertron, JFK , Cleopatra , Abe , Joan , Gandhi , and Cinnamon J. Scudworth ...
AnimationJoan of Arc's clone appeared in the traditionally animated show.
2003Digimon
Digimon

is a popular Japanese series of media and merchandise, including anime, manga, toys, video games, Trading card and other media. Digimon are monsters of various forms living in a "Digital World", a Parallel universe that originated from Earth's various Telecommunications network....
AnimationThe seventh movie of the Digimon
Digimon

is a popular Japanese series of media and merchandise, including anime, manga, toys, video games, Trading card and other media. Digimon are monsters of various forms living in a "Digital World", a Parallel universe that originated from Earth's various Telecommunications network....
series features a Digimon named d'Arcmon who is a female angel and soldier leading the "human-type" Digimon on Wondering Island. She uses a special sword attack called "La Pucelle." She later is revealed only to be a disguised form of Murmuxmon.
2003Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yu-Gi-Oh!

is a Japanese manga created by Kazuki Takahashi, which has spawned a franchise including multiple anime series, a trading card game, and numerous video games....
Animation, TCGIn the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card game there is a monster card named St. Joan (Saint Jeanne in Japan). It is summoned by fusing The Forgiving Maiden (Compassionate Nun) and Marie the Fallen One (Fallen Angel Marie).

In the anime Yu-Gi-Oh Serenity Wheeler (Shizuka Kawai) used it when she, Tristan Taylor (Hiroto Honda), and Duke Devlin (Ryuji Otogi) were forced to face Nesbitt (Soichiro Ota). With power ups from other cards it was able to destroy Nesbitt's last monster, the Perfect Machine King, and win the duel in episode 107 "Mechanical Mayhem Part 2" ("Saint Jeanne's Trinity Attack").
2005Top 10: The Forty-Niners
Top 10: The Forty-Niners

Top 10: The Forty-Niners, a graphic novel published by America's Best Comics in 2005 in comics, is a prequel to the ABC series Top 10 , a police procedural set in the city of Neopolis, where superpowers, robots, monsters, and other comic fodder are the norm for all citizens....
ComicOne of the officers, named Joanna Dark
List of characters in Top 10: The Forty-Niners

Top 10: The Forty-Niners is a prequel to the America's Best Comics series Top 10 . It features several characters from the previous series, relatives of characters from the previous series and many new characters as well....
, dresses in chainmail and uses holy powers.
 
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See also

  • History of film
    History of film

    The history of film spans over a hundred years, from the latter part of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st. Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival novelty to one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment, and mass media in the 20th century....
  • Joan of Arc
    Joan of Arc

    Saint Joan of Arc also known as the Maid of Orleans, is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII of Franc...
  • Joan of Arc bibliography
    Joan of Arc bibliography

    This article covers nonfiction. For fictional representations see Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc.Joan of Arc bibliography is a selective list of scholarly works....
  • Middle Ages in film
    Middle Ages in film

    Medieval films imagine and portray the Middle Ages through the visual, audio and thematic forms of film....


External links

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