Joan of Arc Pictures

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide

A statue of Joan of Arc faces the entrance of Notre-Dame Cathedral at Reims. It is in this cathedral that the Dauphin was crowned King of France as Charles VII on July 17, 1429. This was one of the four promises Joan of Arc is said to have made to the Dauphin: to force the English to leave France in defeat, to have Charles anointed and crowned at Reims, to rescue the Duke of Orléans from the English, and to end the siege of Orléans.