Joan of Arc, national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War. Captured a yea
Other articles where Joan of Arc is discussed: Victor Fleming: The 1940s: His next—and final—movie was Joan of Arc (1948), a rather plodding adaptation of Maxwell Anderson’s stage epic, though Bergman and costar José Ferrer both received Oscar nomina
The first edition of theEncyclopaedia Britannicawas published in three volumes in Edinburgh from 1768 to 1771. On the whole, the first eight editions were not of a very high standard. K. Marx, who used the eighth edition of the encyclopedia, remarked (based on his study of the articles on...
The first edition of theEncyclopaedia Britannicawas published in three volumes in Edinburgh from 1768 to 1771. On the whole, the first eight editions were not of a very high standard. K. Marx, who used the eighth edition of the encyclopedia, remarked (based on his study of the articles on...
The first edition of theEncyclopaedia Britannicawas published in three volumes in Edinburgh from 1768 to 1771. On the whole, the first eight editions were not of a very high standard. K. Marx, who used the eighth edition of the encyclopedia, remarked (based on his study of the articles on...
The first edition of theEncyclopaedia Britannicawas published in three volumes in Edinburgh from 1768 to 1771. On the whole, the first eight editions were not of a very high standard. K. Marx, who used the eighth edition of the encyclopedia, remarked (based on his study of the articles on...
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, French silent film, released in 1928, that was an acclaimed and historically accurate account of the trial and execution of Saint Joan of Arc in 1431. (Read Lillian Gish’s 1929 Britannica essay on silent film.) The inventive
Infilm: Sound …Procès de Jeanne d’Arc(1962;Trial of Joan of Arc) is as terrifying as any visual effect could be. In Hitchcock’sTorn Curtain(1966) there is a desperate struggle in the kitchen of a lonely farmhouse; as the doomed man’s head is held in an oven and his hands (the...
A History of War 41 Questions from Britannica’s Most Popular World History Quizzes Related Questions What was the Hundred Years’ War? When did the Hundred Years’ War start? How did the Hundred Years’ War end? What were St. Joan of Arc’s beliefs?
Combat of the Thirty (Show more) Key People: Charles VII Edward III Edward The Black Prince Henry V St. Joan of Arc See all related content Top Questions What was the Hundred Years’ War? When did the Hundred Years’ War start? How did the Hundred Years’ War end? Hundred Years...