Joan of Arc at Orléans
“The bridgehead of Les Tourelles, May 7, 1429. Joan, in white armor with her sacred banner, urges Frenchmen across the broken bridge. Foreground shows scaling ladders and a wounded soldier rallying behind her; midground reveals English defenders falling back beneath crossbow fire; the Loire winds past the spires of the besieged city under a smoke-streaked dusk.”
