Joan of Arc

[Theres]

nothing i can say will do this amazing woman justice.
go here...

http://www.thehistorychannel.com/tdih/index.html

[Danustouch]

Thanks Greenman. I've always been fascinated with Joan of Arc!

[vincejapfran]

hello all,

have been researching joan since 1997. Have a small museum and often go to France to pay hommage to her and take part in medieval festivals. Next may i hope to go to the Joan of arc festival at Compiegne to shoot it on Video. I will be happy to chat with anyone on this or related subjects of Amazons, warrior women etc. I have also been to the temple of Mulan in China to honour this warrior who fought against the Mongols. Bye for now, from Vince, Scotland.

[Alaiyo]

Clearly I don't do enough.

[vincejapfran]

Wasn't sure if you were refering to me Alaiyo??

[Alaiyo]

Despite my spelling error, I was referring to you, vincejapfran. I think it's great that you have a small museum and that you even traveled to Mulan's temple.

On an odd note, while shopping at Brooks Pharmacy, I found cans of Joan of Arc baked beans. Apparently they are canned at a factory in Parsippany, New Jersey. They cost 88 cents. I suppose there will come a day when we have Rosa Parks roasts or ribs. ;)

[vincejapfran]

Hello Alaiyo!

thanks for responding, for being the only person to respond so far! Well, it is a little bizarre that you can actually buy Joan of Arc baked beans, i'm not even sure if even I would buy them which is a good thing which means that i'm not too obsessed with the whole JOA thing. Mulan - well to be honest, i didn't actually go to China just to visit her temple, i had gone to Wuhan city in the centre of China to teach for a year and it is by complete coincidence that her mountain and temple was only a couple of hours from the city i happened to be visiting. There ain't much to see either, her temple is very small, no photos allowed and most of the mountain has stalls selling non mulan stuff for the tourists. I think i was the only tourist there that day, however on the road to her temple is a life sized statue of her on a horse pulling an arrow and it looks very like many of the JOA statues I've seen at Compiegne in France. Bye for now!

[Verthandi]

Wow, talk about thread necromancy. That's a great link. When I was confirmed in the Catholic church, St. Joan Darc was my patron. I was the first to have her as a patron and as far as I know, there's only been one other girl to choose her in my church. She was an amazing woman.

[vincejapfran]

Hi there Venthandi, great to hear from you too! Glad to hear you were confirmed with St Joan. When i was confirmed at the age of about 9ish i had never even heard about Joan of arc. Infact, after being catholic schools for 16 years, i still hadn't heard about this Saint. When i was doing research on her for a screen play i wanted to write i approached the Jesuits in Edinburgh to ask if they had access to any extra knowledge about Joan's history and the priest looked at me in horror as if i were committing some kind of blasphemy againts the church even although Joan is an official christian Saint. It was when i was 27 that i by chance saw a Film in the French Film Festival in Edinburgh 'Jeanne La Pucelle' with actrice Sandrine Bonnaire that i discovered Joan. After i saw the film i was a changed person as i suddenly became fascinated with her story, the medieval hundred years war, then French culture and finally the language. The great thing about Joan is there's so much information available about her adventures, the trials and even the rehabilitation trials held 20 years after her death. In most churches and cathedrals i've been to in Picardie, there's always a statue in most of them to comemorate St Joan, especially in Compiegne, and Rouen and that general region.