From 29/04/2013 to 31/12/2013Exhibitions - Cultural things to doOrléans - Loire ValleyNear to Joan of Arc's house, Orleans, visit
Based in the house where Joan of Arc lived during the Siege of Orleans in 1429, Centre Jeanne d'Arc has been presenting permanent collections and temporary exhibitions on mediaeval history and art since 1976.It uses Joan’s life to explore themes relating to schooling, illumination, stained glass windows, conflict, religious life, daily life and architecture from that time.It offers a great way to tackle the history of the Middle Ages through a symbolic figure.This timber house was owned by Jacques Boucher, the Duke of Orleans’s treasurer, who gave Joan of Arc a place to stay just after she liberated the city in 1429.
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