CNN —More than 800 years after her birth, Joan of Arc — a patron saint of France — remains an object of not just historical, but cultural fascination.
Humble beginningsOne of five children in a peasant family in Domrémy, in north-eastern France, Joan was born in the year 1412.
The Amazonian image of Joan of Arc in armor is perhaps the most recurrent one in popular culture, inspiring thousands, if not hundreds and thousands, of similar depictions.
It also provided the inspiration for Carl Theodore Dreyer’s silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) starring Renée Jeanne Falconetti.
She is also a cautionary tale for young women, a brutal warning of the fickle nature of celebrity and a symbol of morality and strength.
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