Printer Friendly
The Free Dictionary
982,006,539 visitors served.
?
Dictionary/
thesaurus
Medical
dictionary
Legal
dictionary
Financial
dictionary
Acronyms
 
Idioms
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia
encyclopedia
?

Jeanne d'Arc

   Also found in: Dictionary/thesaurus, Wikipedia 0.03 sec.
Jeanne d'Arc: see Joan of Arc Joan of Arc, Fr. Jeanne D'Arc (zhän därk), 1412?–31, French saint and national heroine, called the Maid of Orléans; daughter of a farmer of Domrémy on the border of Champagne and Lorraine.
..... Click the link for more information.
.

?Page tools
Printer friendly
Cite / link
Email
Feedback
? Mentioned in ? References in periodicals archive
 
In this work, set up as a double projection, Tellez continues his investigation into psychiatry, collaborating with people who have experienced mental disorders to produce a new set of intertitles for Carl Theodor Dreyer's silent masterpiece La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928).
The popular imagination seems never to tire of her, and the story of the maid of Orleans has been the subject of at least twenty films, most effectively in Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent masterpiece La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, most recently in last year's thoroughly contemporary The Messenger (see Richard Alleva,"Dames at War," December 17, 1999).
The poems to Jeanne d'Arc are a curious phenomenon - Bertela explains that this was a theme practiced by Catholic poets who supported Louis XIII's campaign against the Huguenots.
 
Encyclopedia browser? ? Full browser
 
 
Encyclopedia
?

Disclaimer | Privacy policy | Feedback | Copyright © 2008 Farlex, Inc.
All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. Terms of Use.