Statue of Joan of Arc Listening to Her Voices

Statue of Joan listening to her voices.
During the Second World War, to protect the statue of Joan of Arc from the desires of the Germans who seized non-ferrous metal objects, a Châlonnais entrepreneur named Clément surrounded it with a construction hut. Clément died during deportation.
Sculptor: CHAPU
Founder: BARBEDIENNE

JEANNE d'ARC, known in German-speaking countries as "JOHANNA von ORLEANS", (1412? to 1431) was an important person in the history of France at the time of the so-called 100 Years' War between the kingdoms of England and France. After her capture, she was condemned as a heretic (at the instigation of the English) and burned, but two and a half decades later (at the instigation of the French) this sentence was overturned. She is the patroness of France.
The music group OMD (Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark) dedicated a song to her in the early 1980s: "Maid of Orleans". Find it on YouTube here:

The bronze statue dates from 1892. During the German occupation of World War II it was hidden by a resident of Chalon to protect it from being melted down.