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Nov 19, 2024

　　A strangely expressionless statue of Joan of Arc, raised high on a rearing horse and bearing a sword, graces this square facing the cathedral. The so-called Maid of Orléans stood alongside Charles VII for his coronation at the cathedral on 17 July 1429.

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