Joan of Arc is considered
a heroine of France.

Joan of Arc, a peasant girl living in medieval France, believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in its long-running war with England. With no military training. She dressed a boy and convinced the King to let her fight and lead an army.

Believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans in 1429 that drove back the English who were trying to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War.

On May 23, 1430, she was captured and jailed for more than a year and put on trial for charges including heresy, witchcraft and violating divine law for dressing like a man.

On May 30, 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. The Hundred Years’ War waged on until 1453, with the French finally beating back the English invaders. In 1450, Joan’s guilty verdict was overturned by a Rehabilitation Trial ordered by Charles VII. Joan’s legend grew, and, in 1909 she was beatified in the famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris by Pope Pius X. In 1920, she was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint by Pope Benedict XV.

The Statue of Liberty

She is an icon, a national treasure, and one of the most recognizable figures in the world. Each year millions who cherish her ideals make the journey to experience her history and grandeur in person. 

A colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor within New York City, in the United States. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French people commemorating the alliance of France and the United States during the American Revolution. On the Fourth of July, 1884, the French People presented this deed of gift to Levi Morton, the U.S. Minister to France, officially bestowing America with the colossal “Liberty Enlightening the World.” “As a souvenir of the unalterable friendship of the two nations.”

Learn more: https://www.statueofliberty.org/statue-of-liberty/overview-history/