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Joan of Arc led the French army in May 1429 to end a siege in Orleans and was victorious because within a day the English were forced to retreat. The poetic story written by Christine de Pizan emphasizes victory.
The first poem to have been composed – while Jeanne was still alive. Le Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc (written in 1429)
The Song of Joan of Arc or Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc is an epic poem written in 1429 by the esteemed poet of France at that time Christine de Pisan. The poem was finished on July 31, 1429 at the height of Joan of Arc's success and reflects the national sentiments toward Joan at that time.
The Song of Joan of Arc is the only popular piece written about Joan in her lifetime. The author, Christine de Pisan, was a professional writer at the Court of Charles VI of France (1380-1422), an unusual occupation for a woman at that time. Her father, Tommaso, became Charles V's court physician and astrologer in 1365, just after she was born ...
During Henry's coronation as king of England in 1429, poems by John Lydgate were read to stress further Henry's dual inheritance of England and France. A direct link was made between Henry and his grandfather, Charles VI.
Mathieu Thomassin's Registre delphinal (1456) confirms the intertextual connections between Christine's 1429 poem about Joan and the pro-Joan writings of the early debate. Fraioli's careful treatment of intertextual relations sets this whole body of texts apart from a second collection of later writings, which centers on the widely disseminated ...
The following works are a small sample: Christine de Pisan's poem, Ditié Jeanne d'Arc (1429), Schiller's tragedy, La Pucelle d'Orléans (1801), Charles Régny's dramatic trilogy, Jeanne d'Arc (1891), G.B. Shaw's St. Joan (1923), and Jean Anouilh's L'Alouette (1953).
