The Maid Of Orleans
This lovely statue of the French National Hero Joan of Ark can be admired in the cathedral of Vannes in Brittany.
This is what the Enyclopedia Britannica has to say about her:
Saint Joan of Arc, byname the Maid of Orléans, French Sainte Jeanne d'Arc or La Pucelle d'Orléans, born c. 1412, Domrémy , Bar, France - died May 30, 1431, Rouen; canonized May 16, 1920; feast day May 30; French national holiday, second Sunday in May, national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years War. Captured a year afterward, Joan was burned by the English and their French collaborators as a heretic. She became the greatest national heroine of her compatriots. Her achievement was a decisive factor in the later awakening of French national consciousness.
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