Source: File: Fontaine Jeanne d’Arc – Longwy 1900.jpg, 2015.e-monumen.net. [online] Available at:<http://e-monumen.net/patrimoine-monumental/fontaine-jeanne-darc-longwy> [Accessed:
17 February 2015].
Within the Journal, a Parisian publication,
Came discussion of
German occupation -
Holding the region
of a Lorraine commune.
Here Longwy's people - the Longoviciens,
Stated their
survival was owed to a statue.
Joan of Arc, an
icon of French bravery,
Had already stood
for years - a stone effigy
Before the entrance
to the Longwy
Church's entrance,
raised upon a plinth;
Under her fixed
look the town succumbed.
The stone carved
woman, in her armour,
Stood to hold aloft
a flag on her shoulder -
Her long, sharp
sword hanging by her side.
Below her feet a
lion offered drinking water;
She stood there,
resistant to bombardment.
The blessed maiden of
Lorraine - Saint
Joan of Orleans - then
held by the Longwy
People as their
proof of divine protection.
In discouragement
of this beliefs definition
The Germans
engraved her pedestal.
The words were to
rework the legend
In taking the
Spirit of the Orleans Maid
Trying to disperse
her medieval heroism
Into the present,
by suggested defection
''The Maid of
Orleans was always
The enemy of the
English. The French
Are today fighting
by the side of the
English, hence Joan
of Arc cannot
Be with the French,
she is with us.''
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. New German Claim - 'Our Ally Joan of Arc'. The
Daily Telegraph, [online]
17
Feb. P.10. Col.3. Available
at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11411744/Daily-Telegraph-February-17-1915.html
[Accessed: 17 February 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 17 February 2015).
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